-=> On 21 Aug 95  23:37:29 Mike Bilow said to Andrew Grillet <=-


 AG> I have some stuff that uses the parallel port to emulate
 AG> IEEE488 and other such like things. This needs to CLI to get
 AG> H/W timing right.

 AG> I run it in a DOS box, cos I havn't had time to port it to
 AG> OS/2 yet.

 MB> You have no business doing things like this under OS/2.  You can't
 MB> even grab a hardware interrupt from a DOS box, but can only get it
 MB> reflected.  This changes a code path that could be a few bytes long to
 MB> one that is hundreds of bytes long, and this blows away your timing
 MB> constraints anyway.  Properly, you should do this with a device
 MB> driver.

Come on .. One of the big advantages of OS/2 is that it DOES run DOS software.
Sure it would be better to port the app to OS/2, and yes, I know it should be
a device driver, but there is one major stumbling block ... AFAIK there are
only 24 hours in a day. If you can supply me another 8, I will have the thing
ported in a trice.

I am all ready to port it ... but Im spending 8 hrs a day porting video DDs.
The printer is low priority. The SCSI one will be started as soon as video is done.



Andrew



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