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echo: os2prog
to: Anis Ahmad
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1994-08-17 19:23:20
subject: Asm

AA>
  >         I'm getting OS/2 soon and I was wondering if the
  > assembly language changes other than BIOS?
AA>

  There are three different answers to your question, because it was so
  badly phrased and ambiguous.

  1.  There is no change to the assembly language in OS/2, because you
      are still using the same 386/486/586 CPU that you always have
      been.

  2.  The only change for assembly language programming is use of a flat
      memory model and 32-bit registers, rather than a segmented one and
      16-bit registers.

  3.  The only change for system-level programming is that the system
      API has been designed to be easily callable from a high-level
      language, and comprises a set of Pascal function calls.

  > JdeBP <
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