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   Alexei A. Frounze to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: windows   
   22 Nov 22 18:46:43   
   
   From: alexfrunews@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 4:18:37 PM UTC-8, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   ...   
   > But I still need to understand that it is technically possible   
   > to maintain compatibility with real Win16 writing to some   
   > sort of console via some sort of technique.   
      
   I vaguely recall that an old compiler (likely Borland/Turbo Pascal for Windows)   
   produced "console" programs that actually were GUI ones, just rendered the   
   text in a regular window.   
      
   Alex   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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