Reply to post: Re: IBM BIOS replication

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Re: IBM BIOS replication

Because a BIOS API is very clearly not copyrightable - nowhere is there a header or copyrightable text. A BIOS API is the knowledge that you load 0 into ah, load the mode number into al and call int 010h to change the video mode. There might be a macro file that equates names with numbers but (as per the errno.h discussion) that's not copyrightable.

This is also a vision of what APIs might look like in the future: void interface(int id,...); or void interface(); (remembering that an empty argument list doesn't mean void interface(void); in C.)

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