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- From: tanp@ns (Bill Wendling)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: GNU Interrupts
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:33:54 GMT
- Organization: Cen-Com Internet
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- Schumaker inexplicably wrote:
- } I've just made the change from MSDOS/Windows to LINUX. Along with this switch
- } I've had to change C compilers. I'm now using GCC. I do a lot of hard
- } interfacing and graphics work and need to be able to control certain
- } interrupts and have access to ports. But I can't for the life of me find any
- } library included with linux that will let me do this. Are there any
- } available?, does linux allow you to call interrupts?, is there one included
- } which I haven't found?
-
- } any info would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Linux doesn't use interrupts. That is an MS-DOG invention.
- You might want to look at the Linux sorce code to see how they do it.
- Or, since you are doing graphics, you might check out X-Windows which
- allows for this.
-
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