Replying to a message of Tim Hutzler to Scott Mcnay:
 TH> However, there are BIOS areas that an operating doesn't mess
 TH> with, and that's because it is very specific to the
 TH> hardware, ie. a particular motherboard chip set, or video
 TH> chep set, or a non-IDE interface like SCSI.
Do you think that 32-bit operating systems like OS/2 and WinNT would use real 
mode BIOS calls? I would be amazed if they do; more likely they replace the 
entire BIOS routines with their own drivers, written specifically for the 
particular hardware.
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