On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Roger Ivie <rivie%ridgenet.net@localhost>People coming from a PC background don't understand how unusual the PC is in having *absolutely* *every* *thing* nailed down. It is not normally the case that a wide range of hardware has the same registers in the same places. It only happened in the PC because PC-DOS was so extraordinarily weak.All true, but I've always seen that as one of the PC's few superpowers.
Only a superpower of evil, Darth. -- roger ivie rivie%ridgenet.net@localhost