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   Marco van de Voort to Jim Leonard   
   Re: Pascal GUI   
   28 Jul 06 17:02:09   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-07-26, Jim Leonard  wrote:   
   > inflater wrote:   
   >> GEM and those freaky GUI programs like Graphical Vision or someting   
   >> including MOS (Master Operating System),  are totally rotten and   
   >> disgusting. They are shareware (except GEM and now MOS) and they are   
   >> fully incompatible with own OS programming in Pascal. They are using   
   >> the stupid DOS unit and all other sh**s like VESA. I dont need VESA! I   
   >> need WORKING GUI written in Borland Pascal 7.0 without DOS unit.   
   >   
   > Do you need a working text GUI (like TurboVision) or graphical GUI   
   > (like GEM)?   
      
   A text UI is a TUI, not a GUI. The "G" stands for graphics (*)   
      
      
   (*) One could make a case for a TV app on a framebuffer console of course,   
   but those are abstractions working on different levels. To the program it is   
   a textmode.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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