1 Oct
2001
1 Oct
'01
4:16 p.m.
I wrote:
> This was the point to my original question: why
would clone makers go
to
> the trouble of displaying the message and then
halting the system,
instead
> of just *halting the system*? (Unless they were
using stolen code.)
Just
> doesn't quite make sense . . .
Hans replied:
To tell the user what had happened?
The code pointed to by Int 18H is responsible for
printing that message
and could be invoked from elsewhere than th BIOS boot sequence so it
seems just user friendly to display some message if you are going to
hang the system.
"No ROM BASIC" does not tell the user what happened. "No bootable device
found" would be more helpful.
Of course today you would get a BSOD - much more
informative ;-)
Yes, thank God for Bill Gates ;>)
Glen
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