[OpenBIOS] ASM/C and 16/32 bit questions.

[David Woodhouse]

We're going to have to provide a standard 16-bit BIOS interface if we want to 
support DOS and Windows users. There's not a lot of chance of making the BIOS 
go straight into 32-bit mode and stay there.

We can still use C in 16-bit mode - take a look at the elks development utils, 
which are quite suitable for this task.

I think we want to write most of it in C, with some critical sections in ASM - 
after http://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/devload/ I really don't want to think 
about large projects written solely in assembly.


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