> all vidio cards nowadays come with their own BIOS. Bypassing it would
> cripple any new design features post operating release.
Unless you used a video driver designed specifically for the card that took 
over the functionality that was lost when the video BIOS was taken over.  
Most modern OSs take over the interrupt vectors for BIOS and Video BIOS and 
handle it internal to the OS or with drivers if they can.
 - steve
   Team OS/2
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