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clipka wrote:
> Back then, the role of the BIOS was still closer to its name ("Basic
> Input/Output System) than it is nowadays: It really did basic input and
> output handling even while the OS was running,
That pretty much went away when OSes started running in real mode. By the
time you got away from 16-bit code, nobody used the BIOS for basic I/O any more.
But you knew that.
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