mirrorbird(20:38:40)
i bet the DOS/4G people made a lot of $
Agemixer(20:38:11)
franz: Yeah whatta hazy term.. but complex memory management and the pc setups differ too much from one to another, i/o areas, shadowmem, whatever sth like that and not to mention the sound card handling and interrupts
franz_opa(20:37:49)
2nd reality uses turbo pascal for glue code but effects are ASM
franz_opa(20:36:57)
in MS-DOS things like video mode selection etc. is done in Assembly even if the program is otherwise C...