From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 3:08:58 PM UTC+8, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:   
      
   > > I assume there was an API call to display text on a   
   > > graphics window.   
      
   > It's the GDI, AFAIR.   
   >   
   > There's no shell, no select/copy/paste... You need to emulate   
   > everything if you want to preserve the familiar experience.   
      
   The familiar experience I want is MSDOS.   
      
   No mouse. No text selection.   
      
   I don't need to emulate anything, I just need to get the text   
   from A to B, and keyboard input from C to D.   
      
   Converting PDOS/86 from an MSDOS 2.0 equivalent to   
   64-bit Windows with 50 billion lines of code is a project   
   I will leave to future generations. I'll be happy to reach   
   MSDOS 2.0. With certain changes such as being   
   written in C, and needing a Turbo 186 or 80286 for practical   
   use etc. And because it is mostly written in C, a simple   
   recompile will make it fully 32-bit flat.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)