> I personally think that the invention of > INT 15.4F was a mistake, though I'm sure IBM thought it was a really good > idea, at least at the time.
I personally think that the invention of INT 15.4F was a fantastic idea; actually it was really necessary. DOS is supposed to use the BIOS for all hardware access; you won't find any (at least no many) INP or OUTP in DOS. without INT15.4F foreign keyboard handlers are forced to INP/OUTP which is IMO against DOS design. (ok, direct vieo access is also against DOS's design, but that's a different story) giving us int 15.4f makes it possible to write hardware independent mKEYBs, allows recycling of a large part of the existing BIOS keyboard handler, and even reuses special BIOS handling (think Fn keys on notebookk keyboards) INT 15.4F is great. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
