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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.190209.8650@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:02:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.201203.4985@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com> <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >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.
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- This is the way it's done under Unix and other systems, as well.
- That's why some enterprising programmers wrote the curses package. I
- wonder when this'll be ported to OS/2.
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