BG> Nope, it's still basically a serial interface layer, much 
BG> like a fossil.

 PE> A fossil is much more than a set of comms routines.  BTPE
 PE> and Binkely 2.50 do not have a fossil.  In fact, I would
 PE> hazard a guess that no-one has ever implemented a fossil on
 PE> anything other than an IBM PC running MSDOS.  BFN.  Paul.

Fossils are MS-DOS (mostly) but not just on PClones. That was the point.
All sorts of non-PC-compatables have fossils to act as a standard interface
to serial hardware. Tandy etc machines spring to mind. The documentation in
the FOSSIL FSC used to give some history (I think)...

...Alex.
(Pagan & Proud)

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