Re: real time?

TADGUNINC@... wrote:

> From: TADGUNINC@...
>
> Ted,
> Thank you for the info.
> A short follow up question on programming. When I was in electronics school
> back in "81", we had to write a machine lang. program on the "vic 20"
> computer to get the input from the key board decide what key was pressed and
> send it to the monitor. basically it did just what you do when typin on the
> key board now. Are there was to access the machine level on 286's, 386's,
> Pentium's etc.....?

Machine level? That's what you are doing all the time, really. You would use
an assembler program to convert mnemonics to x86 machine code, then
run it through a linker program, and execute it. If you really want to make it
dirty, use the DOS Debug program, and write your machine code in hexadecimal
bytes in memory, then give the G xxx command to execute it.

Of course, Windows discourages this, and Linux discourages it even more,
but you can certainly do it.


Jon