dgl292@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee) (10/05/90)
The TSR in question is a speech synthesis package. Since I haven't yet encountered a *ix speech package, I am interested in running a DOS package under a Unix/Xenix operating system. I have some experience with VPix but do not know of a way to run a DOS TSR while still working in Unix. In short, the speech package captures all data sent through BIOS (INT 10h) and speaks it, monitors the keyboard for commands, and maintains its own hardware interrupt for communication with the speech synthesis board. Though it would probably be ok for the first two functions to be delayed, the hardware interrupt should be serviced regularly (failure to do this produces interesting speech). Is this possible in any currently available Unix/Xenix implementations? Doug Lee (dgl292@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dgl292)