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From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Win 95 Console Stuff...
4 Nov 1997 00:02:03 -0800 :
Message-ID: <01BCE90E.3323CF10.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'Jason M. Felice'"
<jasonf AT apk DOT net>

Jason M. Felice wrote:
> As we all know, Win95's console support *sucks* -- it is slow as hell.
> I've been thinking about ways to fix it.  There are three ways that I can
> think of:
> 
> 1) Support for DOS (16 bit, DJGPP) isn't slow at all.  It's just the Win32
> 
> 2) DirectX allows direct access to the graphics hardware, including text
> 
> 3) We could write a VXD that would allow aware applications to write

4) We can run Windows NT and forget about Nightmare'95 :-)

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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