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From: geller@rlgvax.UUCP (David Geller)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Are BIOS interrupts available on "compatibles"?
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 15:22:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 15:22:14 1984
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Televideo systems are VERY VERY VERY compatible with IBM PC's. In fact,
I've been doing direct ROM BIOS scroll stuff for quite a while now. There
have been reports that some of the routines are slower than they should
be but I haven't seen this to be true. Their ROM BIOS has all of
the same calls as IBM's ROM BIOS.

On that note I should express my amazement at the flap made about
compatible systems and their IBMish ROM BIOS routines. I mean it would
be sooo easy to create a bunch of functions that 1) do the same
things as IBM's, 2) take the exact same arguments, and 3) process at
the same slow speed. What's the flack about? Is everyone that afraid of
big blue that they can't even try??? (or they just might be smart
enough to try a different, faster, more advanced approach to the things
IBM'S ROM BIOS trys to do). I'd like to see some replys. Perhaps there
are some legal issues I'm not aware of...I'm just a byte buster...

					rlgvax!gelller (david Geller)