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   Frank Durda IV to Tom Lake   
   Re: Why no Model II emulator?   
   31 Aug 07 01:53:47   
   
   From: uhclemLOSE.sep07@nemesis.lonestar.org   
      
   Tom Lake  wrote:   
   : Since the Model II had no graphics, business software was the main   
   : use.   
      
   As an option, the Model II/12/16/16B/6000 all had the ability to   
   provide monochrome graphics, with the same resolution and functionality as   
   was offered for the Model III.  (The Model 4/4D/4P graphics option was   
   compatible, but had additional capabilities that hardly anybody took   
   advantage of.)   
      
   Applications and libraries (plus some demo programs) existed for   
   TRSDOS/TRSDOS-II.  Also, later versions of XENIX provided some ioctl()   
   calls to allow XENIX programs to access the graphics hardware but had   
   some limitations on mixing text and graphics.   
      
      
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