Re: Where am I going wrong????

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From: David Charlap
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:02

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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.

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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