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echo: os2prog
to: Dann Lunsford
from: Robert King
date: 1994-08-24 18:50:00
subject: Re: ASM in OS/2

In a message dated , Dann Lunsford wrote to Robert 
King:
DL> Believe me, I would, if I could.  Unfortunately, that requires a 
DL> device 
DL> driver exist for the SYMPHONY Chipset!  Ain't no sich animule!
DL> BTW, don't let the name confuse you; the SYMPHONY chipset is another 
DL> control
DL> chipset like OPTI or SIS.  I'm not diddling with the PAS16, I'm 
DL> diddling
DL> with the basic motherboard timing.
DL> 
DL> *flame on*
DL> I've gotten something working using the PORTIO library from Hobbes.  
DL> 18+K
DL> for what took a 14 *byte* program in DOS!  Nauseating!!!!  This 
DL> incredible
DL> program bloat has got to stop!  There should be a WELL-DOCUMENTED way 
DL> to 
DL> use assembler in EVERY system!  And I *DON'T* care about 
DL> "portability".
DL> *flame off*

I wonder then, does not the DOS version still work? If so, why write the
¨OS/2 equivilent? I realize that one might want such a tool native to the
OS ¨but, that does seem like an aweful lot of work for so simple a task.
  Robert

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