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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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