Hello Allan!

Sunday August 11 1996 13:26, Allan Mertner wrote to Geir_Eivind Mork:

 >>> 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

 GEM>> when you talk about api's.. is the Os2 textmode api REALLY 16
 GEM>> bit ?

 AM> It is.  Virtual Pascal calls these functions directly, whereas
 AM> Speed-Pascal has 32 bit wrapper functions in a DLL that call the
 AM> 16-bit functions.

yeah....  VP is nice that way, cept you need to clean up the thunking a
bit. (of course, SP needs to add thunk calls :)

 AM> Yet another area where the innards of OS/2 could use some brushing up,
 AM> unfortunately.

Ohh..  not really, They just need to add DLL's that do Console mode using
32 bit calls instead of 16 bit.

Kzinti RedClaw (kzinti{at}gj.net), [Team LORE, Team OS/2 (Fanatics Division)]

... Not to worry Brain, I never make just one mistake.
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