From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 10:46:44 AM UTC+8, Alexei A. Frounze 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.   
      
   Ok, that would be another option. Provide calls so that   
   the executable thinks it is opening a graphics window,   
   but I only support one graphics window size, and it is   
   only capable of displaying 80 * 25 characters.   
      
   Crikey, it sounds like this knowledge is on the verge of   
   being lost.   
      
   Hopefully I can codify something so that there is some   
   sort of historical record of what the machines were   
   capable of.   
      
   I assume there was an API call to display text on a   
   graphics window.   
      
   But there's still the pipe option which sounds like a   
   simpler interface if I can find someone who still   
   remembers how it was done.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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