From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 23:08:33 -0500 (EST)
To: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Was: A more ordered fixlist Now: Memory mapped video is cool?
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The system messed up on that last message.
I'm all for doing whatever will make opendos fly for those
that can stand the altitude.   Some of its users can't stand the altitude
though, and stripping out parts which end up excluding
accessibility devices and systems seems to my mind to be
much more the style of Micro$oft.  While it's true micro$oft
is aware of the handicapped community and is addressing problems,
for many years the original product came out then the retrofitting.
It's easier to build these features in on the ground floor.
gwbasic worked well, but qbasic for speech synthesizer users
isn't a picnic.  Fortunately I can get gwbasic working with dos 6.22
by means of an sysver entry of gwbasic 3.2.
bascom and related utilities also work in the same way,
but when I checked the table in sysver.exe
I heard no mention of any of those utilities.



jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>