3 Aug
2004
3 Aug
'04
4:40 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
Ahh, but were you USING DOS [API services] for
perfoming the Serial I/O or
were you bypassing it and going to a lower [BIOS or Hardware] level......
Of course! Who would try to write a serious serial application going
throgh DOS??
Therefore you could write good serial IO on a machine
that was RUNNING dos,
but you could NOT write high performace routines USING dos.....
I would have never dreamed of doing so. ;)
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