Hello Paul,
 PS> inline asm (mostly interrupt calls) but can't make a 
 PS> full program in asm yet.  How big of an advantage 
 PS> (speed/size/etc.) is it in an OS/2-native program?

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

 PS> 70MB is _everything_, though.  You can delete a lot of 
 PS> the stuff, including the runtime library source if you 
 PS> don't need it.  Probably could cut it down to as low as 
 PS> 40MB if you needed to.
I've still about 400 megs free after installation .

 PS> Refreshing to see somebody excited about it.  :-)
 PR> supposed to be in tuesday now...
It arrived monday... Big change going from 3.1/dos to 2.0/os/2 eh ?
Many things I can't yet do that I took for granted under dos; like direct
screen writes, and mouse control in a text mode session.

I don't suppose you know anything about using the mouse in os/2 full screen
(text) mode ?
   Also, can you reccomend any good os/2 beginner books  hate
using that word... who'd of thought I'd be beginning  all over
again... Oh well, it is CLEARLY a better platform...
                Paul Rider.

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