Re: Linux syscalls

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Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:00:09 -0500

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:43:54 +0100, "Beth"
<BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> wrote:

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>added in since DOS because DOS couldn't do them...DOS never used
>device drivers either...
Since when?

The most common device drivers are build into DOS.
This is the builtin list from DOS 7.10, not counting block devices:
CON, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COM1, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM2, COM3, COM4

ANSI.SYS is a replacement driver for the CON device.

Have you ever tried to use a SCSI device under DOS without a driver?

>
<snip>
>there anymore (the "DOS box" on NT is more an "emulation" of
>DOS)...if, indeed, anything at all, should Microsoft be trusted
Closer to OS/2 than DOS if using cmd.exe

>to be telling the truth...for once... 

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