From:	"Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Interrupts reserved for BASIC
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:25:31 +0300
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Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote in message
news:7slrv7$4nv$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu...
> I was reading a PC interrupt list one night and saw that nearly half
> of the interrupts are listed as "reserved for Basic." If my program
> is in C/C++, is made with DJGPP, and runs under DOS 6 or later
> or Sindows 9x, then where does Basic enter into the equation?

Wild guess - this is some kind weird prehistoric leftover from the days the
original IBM PC had a ROM BASIC version installed that came up if you did
not insert a boot disk into clackety-whackety drive A?!


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