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From: gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler)
Subject: Re: Difficulty in programming
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.191035.12599@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Summary: a PC approach
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <2487@zipeecs.umich.edu> <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu> <20990@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 19:10:35 GMT
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In article <20990@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <1990Jun2.063414.10292@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-1ei@e260-2f (Joseph Chung) writes:
>>In an IBM (no flames please!), if I want to put a character anywhere on the
>
>did not have the same base segment for the screen memory.  Lets take
>a different example: wait five seconds on any computer running MS-dos.
>		   -- Darren

Ummm...do you mind I ask why you limit a PC to running MS-DOS...Getting a 
five second timout is as easy as a simgle function call, and a procedure
address it needs to vector to once the delay has been accomplished...

if you happen to be programming in Windows.

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Co-Op Scum
Glenn Patrick Steffler
gpsteffl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca	gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu