Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/08:43:52
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:36:40 -0500 (EST) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> writes:
> >> One of the first things I will do is Direct screen writes,
> >regardless of
> >> portability. Who gives a s***, I want it fast on my PC... ;-)
> >
> >RIGHT ON!!!! Thats the good olefashioned PC user attitude I like to
> >hear!!! I HATE programs that do screen output like this:
> >
> >write("C:\>");
> >
> >then write() calls superprint() which calls DOS which has been
> >intercepted by ANSI.SYS, then the BIOS, then... ...zzzzzz...
> >
> >4DOS does direct writes (depending on how you set it up).
> Question:
> OpenDOS is for x86 processors, right?
Yep. Granted, some of the stuff is for 286+ or 386+ though. (Memory
managers, multitasking, etc)
> THEN WHO THE HELL NEEDS IT TO BE PORTABLE?????????
Portable across x86's is fine for me. Actually a full 386 version
would be great.
> You're not going to break things by inserting a little ASM code - it's
> not like it'll run on the Mac anyways :) :) :)
There is probably allready a lot of asm in it. Mac emulators probably
emulate at the machine instruction level anyway so it wouldn't matter.
Besides, who cares about the Mac?
> And who's going to be running the command.com from Linux??? Go ahead and
> make things fast!
I'm running it from Linux! But go ahead and make it fast! That way
it will be fast in Linux too! :o)
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