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- From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: TurboPascal: Programming the IBM PC & XT
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:42:35 GMT
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- In article <BrrrCw.E4s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
- >I have to make a program work on some older IBM computers (PCs and XTs).
- >
- >Are there any capabilities that Turbo Pascal will loose on those early
- >machines? Like sound, delay, GetTime, etc? Thanks.
-
- Those are all fine. The only thing I can remember that you have to watch out
- for are floating point errors: if your 8087 coprocessor tries to signal an
- error, TP is likely to lock up. On some machines you can avoid this by enabling
- the NMI interrupt, but not on all.
-
- Oh, and as John Zitterkopf said, $G+ code won't work. You won't get any sort
- of error message if you try to run it, you'll just lock up when you
- get messed up by the lack of some instruction.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-