On 01/09/2013 03:28 PM, Roger Ivie wrote:
People coming from a PC background don't understand how unusual the PC is in having *absolutely* *every* *thing* nailed down. It is not normally the case that a wide range of hardware has the same registers in the same places. It only happened in the PC because PC-DOS was so extraordinarily weak.All true, but I've always seen that as one of the PC's few superpowers.Only a superpower of evil, Darth.
Well put. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA