Re: Where am I going wrong????

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From: Kai-Uwe Rommel
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:38

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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

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