Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again! Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 15:49:55 GMT References: <1990Jul21.004616.649@Stardent.COM> <388@e2big.mko.dec.com> <391@e2big.mko.dec.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <391@e2big.mko.dec.com> gillett@ceomax.dec.com (Christopher Gillett) writes: > Griping about Turbo Whatever not running in some foreign > environment (like Double DOS) is akin to griping about how hard it is > to get your date to ride in your cool new garbage truck. No, it's more like griping that the guy you hired to mow your lawn insists on using a combine harvester for the job. There is no reason for a compiler to do direct screen writes on an IBM-PC. And there is no reason for the *standard* run time library to so either. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`