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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: <1992Aug17.214149.808@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:41:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug17.162137.17414@stortek.com>
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- In article <1992Aug17.162137.17414@stortek.com> eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Where do you draw this conclusion? Unix boxes have no screen buffer,
- either. But they run X-Windows just fine. PM doesn't need a screen
- buffer to run.
-
- >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_???
-
- Again, I don't know what you mean. PM will be on other platforms. It
- wouldn't be running OS/2 without PM and without text sessions. Do you
- think RISC boxes are teletype-based? Give it a rest. Develop for
- what's out and stop worrying about systems that won't be available for
- a few years anyway. RISC-OS/2 won't be around until version 3.0,
- anyway!
-
- >I guess the days of programming for the least common denominator are
- >gone.
-
- Among what? How many Commodore developers are annoyed that their C-64
- code won't run on an Amiga? Face it, there is no least common
- denominator among incompatible hardware.
-
- >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!?!?
-
- Can you imagine what would happen to the software indistry if every
- developer would fly off the handle like this from mis-reading one
- message on Usenet?
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