[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] ^P and the BIOS

hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) (02/08/91)

In <roeve.665224420@cip-s01> roeve@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Roevenich) writes:
>Unfortunately, you're not quite right. I wrote a keyboard driver some time ago
>and did some snooping in the way KEYB handles certain Controls. Some keypresses
>are directly handled by the INT9-driver, which means, they are transferred
>directly to the BIOS. These are PrtScr, Pause, some others (I can't remember
>at the moment all of them), and Ctrl-P, which initiates Printer-Echoing.
                                 ^^^^^^
>Michael Roevenich

I must say, I'm curious about the kind of BIOS in your coomputer. On all PC's
I know this is handled by DOS ( int 21h services) as it should be, according
to the documentation I've got.

CU
	Ernst de Ridder