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- In article <1992Dec24.203801.7799@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
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- >>Wuh ? In the MS-DOS market you cannt avoid knowing a lot about
- >>the internals of the system and the hardware. Ever heard about
- >>writing interrupt handlers ?
- >
- >This is very silly. It is not at all necesarry to write an interrupt
- >handler for a regular piece of software. In fact, why would anyone
- ^^^^^^^
- What about not-so-regular piece of software ? Are you suggesting
- that only "regular" software will be sold after the FTC ?
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- >want to go invent the wheel over and over again? There are
- >libraries you can use to do almost anything these days. No need
- >to know about the system at all, except for trivial things, like
- >does it provide graphics or not, does it have a clock or not and
- >such. Still these things can be solved at the high level language
- >level.
-
- Who wrote the libraries ? An application or an OS programmer ?
- Who is going to decide on it ? the courts ? the FTC ?
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- >Erik
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- Dov
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