BIOS Interrupt Call - DOS Hooks

DOS Hooks

On MS-DOS systems IO.SYS hooks INT 13 for floppy disc change detection, tracking formatting calls, correcting DMA boundary errors, working around problems in IBM's ROM BIOS "01/10/84" with model code 0xFC before the first call.

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