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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: Hardware Interrupts
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:06:12 -0600
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad>
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Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware Interrupts


<snip>
> I really think that you would be better off forgetting the BIOS and do
> everything yourself.  This may sound like a bold statement (and a lot of
work),
> but one of the primary reasons that the Win9x family of operating systems
was so
> unreliable, is that they used the BIOS for I/O.  Contrast this with the
> reliability of NT, 2K, XP, etc., which don't use the BIOS for anything
(other
> than loading their own boot loader from disk).  Get the ACPI specs
> (www.acpi.org) and write your own code to parse the ACPI tables (which
contains
> the hardware configuration of the machine), and write your own "drivers"
for the
> various common PC motherboard hardware (VGA, keyboard, mouse, USB, serial,
PCI,
> etc.).

Did you mean www.acpi.info? www.acpi.org is the
Avaiation Crime Prevention Institute.