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   Marco van de Voort to inflater   
   Re: Pascal GUI   
   29 Jul 06 22:30:13   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-07-29, inflater  wrote:   
   >> JG   
   > Well:   
   > 1)Without VESA, there is better mode than 640x480x16. It is called   
   > "Mode-X". MODE-X supports all VGA compatible cards   
      
   (some really old ones not, but those are rare, and shouldn't be a problem.   
   IIRC I had a Trident 8800 that didn't)   
      
   > 2)Well, I meant "not using DOS" like "not using INT 21h". And in a "INT   
   > 21h simulated" DOS the OS will be something like "DOS clone".   
      
   Ok. So what exactly does e.g. MOS use from unit dos that is so specific that   
   you can't translate it to your own programming interface?   
      
   If you have a floppy, you will have directories and ways of searching them,   
   so the standard file stuff should be implemented.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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