(Excerpts from a message dated 11-16-99, Peter Knapper to Linda Proulx)

Hi Peter--

PK>No, you are getting distracted again. Once the OS/2 Desktop is
  >visible, then the BIOS is TOTALLY out of the picture and has
  >absolutely NO AFFECT on the Keyboard/Mouse. The "stop working"
  >referred to above refers to when the BIOS is in control of the
  >Keyboard/Mouse during the initial boot process. 

    Not entirely true when running in a VDM.  According to the IBM
manual "OS/2 V3 Virtual Device Driver Reference," most VDM keyboard
support (particularly INT 16H) still uses the BIOS.  From the CD-ROM
Online Library - OS/2 Collection for January 1996:

  "Since the BIOS INT 16h service only references the BIOS data area for
   keystrokes, the BIOS continues to provide this service."

    If you scan the tables in the front of the reference manual, you
will find several other BIOS software interrupts that are handled by the
hardware-supplied BIOS, rather than by the VDD software.  Among these
are the diskette drive motors.  However, as near as I can tell, the
VMOUSE driver is not one of them.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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