From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Dennon Subject: Re: int 16 ? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:10:50 -0800 Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E4D4D4A.9D5A139@seasurf.net> References: <200302140023.23837.davidkedrosky@rogers.com> Reply-To: jdennon@seasurf.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dAvId KeDrOsKy Cc: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org When the PC boots up, the BIOS sets up an interrupt vector table at 0000:0000 with int 0x16 pointing into the BIOS keyboard driver. Linux uses this same vector table to access BIOS disk routines that are used for booting the system. Linux then sets up its own interrupt vector table and switches into protected mode. None of the original BIOS interrupts are then available, nor are they needed. There are several ways to read a single character at a time. One of the easier ways is provided by the curses library. Get on Amazon and look at the programming books by Matthew & Stones, and maybe even by J. Dennon. dAvId KeDrOsKy wrote: > I was told there exists int 0x16, which can be used to read a single character > at a time. Does this interrupt exist in Linux and if so, where can I find > some documentation on it? > > Thanks, > > Dave > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-assembly" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html