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Old 09-16-2002
Question Does unix use interrupts?
I'm a freshman here and I have a simple question.
Does unix use interrupts which is like Dos? Are they the same?
Thx.Smilie
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Old 09-16-2002
Re: Does unix use interrupts?
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Originally posted by Frank_M
I'm a freshman here and I have a simple question.
Does unix use interrupts which is like Dos? Are they the same?
Thx.Smilie
Are you talking about Interrupts like Int 21h in Assembly programming? That's hardware dependent.

A google search for NASM would probably yield good results for Assembly language development under x86 and possbily other architectures.
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Old 09-16-2002
IRQs???
I believe he is asking for IRQs, however, I don't know the answer. I am guessing that it is no they don't.

IRQs are for assigning H/W on Windows. So far as I know UNIX doesn't restrict to that degreee. You can configure many H/W devices on UNIX whereas WINOS only have upto 15 or so.
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Old 09-16-2002
Re: IRQs???
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Originally posted by Kelam_Magnus
I believe he is asking for IRQs, however, I don't know the answer. I am guessing that it is no they don't.

IRQs are for assigning H/W on Windows. So far as I know UNIX doesn't restrict to that degreee. You can configure many H/W devices on UNIX whereas WINOS only have upto 15 or so.
I am pretty sure that IRQs are used on x86 versions of Unix. I bet that they aren't on the OSX version because the Apple hardware never had support for IRQs. I have no idea of any other systems. I'm a pretty cheap x86 guy myself. Smilie
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Old 09-16-2002
Tools I mean int
Thx, I mean int here. I used NASM in Dos and Windows but I don't know if unix follows the same rule. When I use int 21h, I call dos service. but what should I do if I want to call unix service?!(Does it exist Smilie )
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Old 09-17-2002
Re: I mean int
Quote:
Originally posted by Frank_M
Thx, I mean int here. I used NASM in Dos and Windows but I don't know if unix follows the same rule. When I use int 21h, I call dos service. but what should I do if I want to call unix service?!(Does it exist Smilie )
Google is our friend.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall.../linux-asm.txt

It looks like under Linux with NASM 80h is used instead of 21h. The link above seems to be a good start of Assembly programming under Linux on the x86.
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Old 09-18-2002
Yeah, I get that, Thx U
I will keeping googling.......
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