This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I moved your message out of public view, since it appears to me to violate forum policy against advertising; specifically because it mentioned a price. I'm not entirely happy with the rest of the messages you posted but I will leave them unless our Primary Sysop objects. In addition, forum…
Good idea John. Why not suggest it to the sysops.
Kevin, If you read the older messages on the board, you will find that you are only the millionth person with the same question. 🙂 Briefly, the listings go from CA to NY by snail mail, and are then checked against the printed magazine and uploaded by someone for whom,…
Mike, Then the first place I'd look is IBMCOMM. If they don't have it and don't know where to get it (unlikely, but anything's possible), let me know and I should be able to FTP it from Columbia University.
Mike, A version of Kermit exists for damned near every machine made. Which one do you want? There are probably from several to several hundred Kermits available here on CIS alone. Tell us which machine and operating system you need it for and we'll be able to help.
Ben, Digital Equipment Corporation uses such a convention in their assembly language coding. _L_ name would designate a longword (4 bytes) which was used by so that UCB$_L_MEDIA_TYPE would be a longword in the unit control block which designated the media type. DECies, please note that I made up this…
Jim, It seems to me that, to run MS-DOS or OS/2 on any non-80×86 processor, you would have to write, not only an emulator for the 80×86 processor but also provide a BIOS in either native or emulation mode. It also seems to me that any possible performance advantage would…
Mouse/BASIC/EGA Problems
Message #23592
The following is taken (w/o permission) from the Mouse Systems "PC Mouse Reference Manual. "If you expect your program to be used on the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter you should take the following into consideration. Every COLOR statement in a BASIC program generates a BIOS call to set the border…
Matt, If your are cleaning out back issues, I sure could use a January 1988 if you have it. If you are are disposing of one and are willing to send it to me, I'll send you a SASE. Let me know.