Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:46:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, yeep wrote:

> Well, the video-mem can be addressed as normal, by writing directly to
> 0xA000 (in a RM program), but the things is Windows NT doens't know any
> mode 13h !!!!!
> At least not in NT 3.51.

	That's becaue mode 13h is a BIOS mode, and windows NT, like any
	32 bit operating system is not going to thunk around with the
	computer's bios... its going to use its own routines..

	Now does anyone expect Microsoft to let programmers just fiddle
	around with their own hardware as they please?

	When I started blasting Dos out of memory for most of my programs
	[cause I like writing Intel machine code... don't ask me why,
	it probably has to do with the sense of power one gets when
	they hack binary code without an assembler.] most of my friends
	thought I was nuts... you shouldn't do such things they said.

	Windows carries those notions further... Java even more so...
	And Windows + Java now you've got something that requires
	no hardware knowledge to make network apps... Visual Java.. shudder...

	Ofcourse, bloatware beget bloatware...

				ummm... long live Dos! :)
				[sorry about the rant, I've been porting
				from linux -> dos again, and half way
				through thought I'd be better off just
				writing a new computer language...]