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- From: eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg)
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.162137.17414@stortek.com>
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- References: <1992Aug16.201203.4985@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com> <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:21:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com> eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg) writes:
- >>
- >>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
-
- So, IBM says I should take all my fairly sophisticated command line
- applications and convert then to PM. Now because of the above mentioned
- problems (i.e. RISC not having a concept of PC screen buffer or a mouse)
- the OS/2 that ends up on another platform does not support PM. I'm
- looking at another major conversion just to get my code to run on the
- very same operating system. And the conversion will probably be back
- to the command line, at least till IBM get some other user interface
- working. And IBM says this is _better_???
-
- I guess the days of programming for the least common denominator are
- gone. It also sounds like the days of the small time programmer are
- numbered too, at least in the IBM environment. I don't have the
- resources to support a major conversion with every hardware platform
- change. And can you imagine the maintenance problems!?!?
-
- Dave
-