Interrupt List - Release 61 (16jul00)
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RBIL61 - READ BLOCK
INT 10 - VIDEO - READ BLOCK OF
DAC
(Digital-to-Analog Converter) A hardware device (in its simplest form, nothing more than a set of interconnected resistors) which converts a digital number into an analog signal whose voltage is proportional to the value of the digital number.
VGA
Video Graphics Array
and later color video boards use DACs to convert color values into the analog signals sent to the display; sound boards normally use DACs as well.
REGISTERS
(
VGA
Video Graphics Array
(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the
IBM
International Busiuness Machines
PS/2
IBM PS/2, any model
series of computers.
/
MCGA
Multi-Color Graphics Array
(Multi-Color Graphics Array) The low-end color adapter offered in
IBM
International Busiuness Machines
's early
PS/2
IBM PS/2, any model
series machines.
)
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INT 14 - 3com BAPI SERIAL I/O - READ BLOCK
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INT 14 -
FOSSIL
(Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer) A standardized API for performing serial I/O, originally used by the Fido and Opus bulletin- board software and Seadog bulletin-board mailer, but now in wider use.
- READ BLOCK
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INT 14 - TelAPI - READ BLOCK
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INT 15 - Intel System Management Bus - REQUEST
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INT 17 - Enhanced Parallel Port
(EPP)
BIOS
(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
- INSTALLATION CHECK
{#idx28636}
INT 6F - HP Vectra EX-BIOS -
"F_GET_BUFFER"
- READ A BUFFER OF DATA FROM DEVICE
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INT E0 -
CP/M-86
One of the three operating systems offered by
IBM
International Busiuness Machines
for its original
PC
IBM PC
(the other two were MSDOS and the UCSD p-System). It has since evolved into DR-DOS version 6 and Novell DOS 7.
, Concurrent
CP/M
(Control Program for Microcomputers) An early operating system for micros based on the 8-bit Intel 8080 CPU (and later the compatible 8085 and Zilog Z80 CPUs). MSDOS version 1.0 was essentially a clone of CP/M for the Intel 8086.
, DR Multiuser DOS - FUNCTION CALLS
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