Hello Paul!

In a message written on Wednesday May 10 1995, Paul Rider insanely
babbles to Paul Sidorsky:

 PR> depends on the programmer... I would allways use it for direct screen
 PR> writes. Made a hell of a difference . cut display times by
at least a
 PR> factor of 5. Mostly it is a hobby. It's alota fun developing something in
 PR> asm. You feel like you control the computer in every way. (and you do
 PR> )

Shrug, I've never cared about screen writes (though I do know how to do
direct ones should the need arise).  All I use BC++/2 for at the moment is
doors, though I'm expirimenting with PM stuff.

 PR> I've still about 400 megs free after installation .

Wiener.  :-)

 PR> It arrived monday... Big change going from 3.1/dos to 2.0/os/2 eh ?

As far as the IDE goes, not really.

 PR> Many things I can't yet do that I took for granted under dos; like
 PR> direct screen writes, and mouse control in a text mode session.

OS/2 seems to have faster screen writes than DOS, but that may be because
there are 1000 clock ticks per second instead of 18.2.  It can do a lot
more.  :-)

 PR> I don't suppose you know anything about using the mouse in os/2 full
 PR> screen (text) mode ?

I don't even know about using the mouse in PM mode!  :-)

 PR> Also, can you reccomend any good os/2 beginner books  hate
 PR> using that word... who'd of thought I'd be beginning  all over
 PR> again... Oh well, it is CLEARLY a better platform...

I've yet to go to my bookstore since getting BC++/2, but should be going
later this month.  I'm sure somebody else knows of a good one though.

 -- PaulS

--- FMail/386 1.0g