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Why didn't PC games eschew MS-DOS and deal with BIOS directly?
Given the memory referencing limits of MS-DOS for compatibility purposes, why didn't games produced for the 286+ processors eschew MS-DOS and talk directly with the BIOS or IO hardware, instead of all …
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