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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- References: <1992Aug15.230628.2317@stortek.com> <1992Aug16.201203.4985@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com>
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:38:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com> eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg) writes:
- >>All the {Vio,Kbd,Mou} calls are indeed 16-bit calls left over from OS/2 1.x.
- >>Try getting a copy of `Advanced OS/2 Programming' by Ray Duncan for a
- >>discussion of Vio calls.
- >>
- >>Hope this helps,
- >>
- >>/Doug
- >
- >So, are you saying there is no way to get this info using an OS/2 2.0
- >call? Is this IBM's way of telling us that the command line is
- >dead and all new systems should be designed for PM? There are a lot of
- >applications that don't really need that kind of a user interface.
- >
- >Dave
-
- Yes it looks like this. Remember, if OS/2 is ported to a RISC, it would
- not have a concept like the PC screen buffer, so the VIO/MOU/KBD calls
- are useless.
-
- Part of the work can be done with 32-bit IOCtl calls, for the rest you
- have to call 16-bit API's on PC's.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-
-