Replying to a message of Scott McNay to Darryl Gregorash:
 DG>> Because a simple "mov DWO PTR sys_time, eax" is far easier
 DG>> than any of the alternatives using only 3 storage bytes.
 SM> Wrong answer... the BIOS was written before the 386 ever
 SM> came out, and "eax" is definitely a 386 thingie.
Billy Gates was thinking ahead?
Billy Gates couldn't figure out how to typedef a 3-byte structure?
Billy was lazy, and long int was the first thing he thought of?
The structure was inherited from CP/M?
:)
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