From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:48:44 -0500 (EST)
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambersb AT juno DOT com>
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
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So long as opendos documents and supports writing  that will work
with speech synthesizers by means of switches and doesn't require a
mouse

to work parts of it it should be able to be used by anyone and
not risk violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Failure to do this, combined with a business requiring
the operating system to be used by all employees could potentially
cause problems of an indirect legal nature.  The first ones would be for
the company, and the second ones would be the negative
publicity coming out of such a case with opendos mentioned
prominently.  Anyone on this list who has read the
A.D.A. probably knows the relevant sections.
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?
> THEN WHO THE HELL NEEDS IT TO BE PORTABLE?????????
> You're not going to break things by inserting a little ASM code - it's
> not like it'll run on the Mac anyways :) :) :)
> And who's going to be running the command.com from Linux???  Go ahead and
> make things fast!
> 
> ...Chambers
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>