Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11793 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8902 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!oivindt From: oivindt@bio.uio.no (Oivind Toien) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 18:42:41 GMT References: <1991Apr21.135534.724@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1991Apr21.194928.8267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr21.175529.2386@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: wayne@csri.toronto.edu's message of 21 Apr 91 21:55:29 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: darwin.uio.no In article <1991Apr21.175529.2386@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes: > the DOS app's knowledge. Even some moderately-behaved apps can be handled. > Only the truly nasty ones that try direct hardware access will fail, and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > most developers don't write those any more because they know things like > that won't run even under Windows 3.0. (Yes, that *slightly* diminishes Although the direct hardware access mentioned above probably references to hard disk drives this poses the question: Real-time data-acquisition systems generally tends to use things like interrupt handling, DMA-access, reprogramming of PC-timers and direct interaction with A/D card buffers. Will this work, and if not: Does OS2 provide library routines that replaces these kind of functions? -- Oivind Toien Div. of General Physiology, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Oslo P.O. Box 1051, N-0316 Oslo 3, NORWAY Phone+47-2-454732 Fax+47-2-454726