Re: Writing device drivers in Delphi.

Personally, I'd rather be a test subject for a cremation furnace - or rewrite Windows in Cobol - almost the same thing ;)

God, everyone thinks driver writing is so hard ... well, *yes* it is,
and for many reasons which took me a great deal of time to figure out,
but it's not like the kernel magically runs a different instruction
set or something....



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