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echo: os2prog
to: Erik Huelsmann
from: Phil Crown
date: 1996-08-12 04:23:52
subject: Speed Pascal

-=> Quoting Erik Huelsmann to Geir_Eivind Mork <=- 

 EH> Replying to a message of Geir_Eivind Mork to Keith Thomson:
 
 >> I believe that SpeedPascal uses the 32-bit DOS apis, While VP uses the
 >> 16-Bit DOS api's. i'm not certain tho. I believe the only place where
 >> there is a diff
 
 GM> when you talk about api's.. is the Os2 textmode api REALLY 16 bit ?
 EH> Yes it is. It was considered obsolete when introducing PM/WPS, but I
 EH> think they reconsidered that. Anyway, because it was obsolete they
 EH> never made a 32-bit api for it, since nobody was supposed to use it
 EH> anyway... 
 GM> .tDr.

There was a 32-bit VIO API on Devcon 9, for the PPC.  I never used it
and it was removed from Devcon 10.

Phil - Fido:  1:124/8014.0 | Internet:  pcrown{at}airmail.net

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