Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Wouldn't have been my choice of words either, but the BIOS was
actually written originally to provide the low level interface
to the hardware.

And used to be used in DOS days (and even then I used to spend a fair
amount of effort circumventing it then to gain either speed, or a
fighting change that something would work in the first place (i.e.
serial comms))...

Some BIOS calls carried on for a bit in Win95. Can't think of anything
that current windows use it for though.

--
Cheers,

John.

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