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RE: Win 95 Console Stuff...
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Jason M. Felice'" <jasonf at apk dot net>
- Subject: RE: Win 95 Console Stuff...
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:41:24 +0300
Jason M. Felice wrote:
> As we all know, Win95's console support *sucks* -- it is slow as hell.
> I've been thinking about ways to fix it. There are three ways that I can
> think of:
>
> 1) Support for DOS (16 bit, DJGPP) isn't slow at all. It's just the Win32
>
> 2) DirectX allows direct access to the graphics hardware, including text
>
> 3) We could write a VXD that would allow aware applications to write
4) We can run Windows NT and forget about Nightmare'95 :-)
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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