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Re: Computer Products United

From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Computer Products United
Date 2015-12-04 20:56 +0000
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On 2015-12-04, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> The BIOS was in charge of dealing with interface, so what else in the OS 
> needed "fixing" to deal with different hardware?  I gather there might 
> have been some 8088 computers that didn't have a BIOS in ROM, so perhaps 
> it wsa loaded from disk, and that might require a different arrangement.
> But at the time, hardware wsa handled through the BIOS, so what mods would 
> be needed?

Yes, hardware was handled through the BIOS, but not nearly well enough.
Even serial ports couldn't be driven at reasonable speed through the
BIOS - at least not without chewing up any CPU cycles that the application
might need.  Graphics was even worse, with new generations of hardware
coming out in rapid succession.  Programmers had no choice but to go to
the metal - and there went any hope of portability.

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Computer Products United chriskeegan2014@gmail.com - 2015-11-15 20:54 -0800
  Re: Computer Products United Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-11-16 05:28 +0000
    Re: Computer Products United Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-11-16 09:59 +0000
      Re: Computer Products United Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-11-16 11:40 +0000
    Re: Computer Products United Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-16 11:35 -0500
      Re: Computer Products United Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-11-16 11:23 -0600
        Re: Computer Products United scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-11-16 17:27 +0000
        Re: Computer Products United Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-11-16 18:27 +0000
        Re: Computer Products United cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2015-11-16 21:48 +0000
        Re: Computer Products United Freddy1 <something@something.com> - 2015-11-16 17:38 -0500
        Re: Computer Products United Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-11-18 19:52 +0200
        Re: Computer Products United Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-07 21:26 +0100
      Re: Computer Products United Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 12:29 -0800
        Re: Computer Products United chriskeegan2014@gmail.com - 2015-12-02 11:31 -0800
          Re: Computer Products United chriskeegan2014@gmail.com - 2015-12-02 11:34 -0800
            Re: Computer Products United Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-12-04 00:00 -0500
              Re: Computer Products United Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-12-04 20:56 +0000
                Re: Computer Products United Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-12-04 17:12 -0500
          Re: Computer Products United Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-12-02 18:44 -0500
          Re: Computer Products United Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 17:29 -0800
            Re: Computer Products United Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 17:29 -0800
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  Re: Computer Products United "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 17:02 +1100
  Re: Computer Products United Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-16 11:36 -0500
  Re: Computer Products United Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 12:28 -0800

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