Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsj!mec
From: mec@cbnewsj.att.com (michael.e.connick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Poquet PC
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.133555.18987@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 13 Jun 90 13:35:55 GMT
References: <659@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM> <1990Jun11.165630.13885@cbnewsj.att.com> <3282@usceast.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3282@usceast.UUCP> sumner@usceast.UUCP (David Sumner) writes:
> 
> 
> Just what are some of the "very well-behaved" MS-DOS programs"
> that run on the Atari?

You'll pretty much have to write them yourself. The Portfolio will work
with any MS-DOS program that does ALL of its interaction with the
operating system via ROM-BIOS calls. Virtually no commercial programs
are so well behaved. Tiny BASIC 8086 is that well behaved, and I have it
in my Portfolio at all times for knocking out the odd little program. In
addition I've written a couple of Microsoft C programs for my Portfolio
that run just great on it. Along with the standard ROM-BIOS
interface, you can access the screen and serial and parallel port
hardware directly if high-performance is needed. But the interfaces
provided are completely different than a PC-clone would provide.

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Michael Connick    mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM    201-957-3057
AT&T Bell Labs     MT 3F-113	        (Dept. 79151)