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| - | The operating systems offer a set of functions which help write an application. These functions include reading characters and text from standard input, usually the keyboard, displaying characters or text on standard output, usually the monitor, handling files, data streams and many others. In previous generations of operating systems, the software interrupt mechanism was used. In Microsoft DOS, it was **int 21h** while in 32-bit versions of Linux it was **int 80h**. Calling the system function required preparing the arguments in scratch registers and signalling the software interrupt. | + | The operating systems offer a set of functions which help write an application. These functions include reading characters and text from standard input, usually the keyboard, displaying characters or text on standard output, usually the monitor, handling files, data streams and many others. In previous generations of operating systems, the software interrupt mechanism was used. In Microsoft DOS, it was **int 21h** while in 32-bit versions of Linux it was **int 80h** (or in the C-style hex notation int 0x80). Calling the system function required preparing the arguments in scratch registers and signalling the software interrupt. |
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| You can still find many examples using the software interrupt system call on the Internet. In Linux, they should work properly, although they are slower than the new method. In 64-bit Windows, the **int 21** method is no longer supported. | You can still find many examples using the software interrupt system call on the Internet. In Linux, they should work properly, although they are slower than the new method. In 64-bit Windows, the **int 21** method is no longer supported. | ||
