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From: billf@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Bill Faus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 95 Questions
Message-ID: <25590147@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 25 Apr 91 18:57:01 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Jeff Bangert asks:

> 2. The demo program shows the 95 running chkdsk from the DOS prompt.
> Does this mean that 'well-behaved' PC programs can be uploaded and run
> on the 95?

Yes.

> 3. If the answer to #2 is 'yes,' then is it possible, using a standard
> compiler, to write programs on the 95?

Yes.

For example, the demo program was written using MicroSoft C 6.0
and compiled on a PC.  At run time it checks to see whether the machine
it's running on is the HP 95LX or a PC.  If the demo finds itself
running on a PC then it uses the graphics library of MS C.  If
the demo finds itself running on the HP, then it uses a custom
set of graphics routines for the 240x128 LCD display.  

You can take the same demo program that runs on the PC, download
it to the HP 95LX, open the Filer application, highlight
95DEMO.EXE, press RUN and the demo will begin.

In general, 'well-behaved' connotes MDA compatible, text-oriented,
standard I/O, non-graphics programs.  

-bill