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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: ANSI.SYS and MS-DOS 2.0
Message-ID: <282@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 16:10:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 16:10:23 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 04:54:53 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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ANSI.SYS is certainly not IBM only - the AT&T 6300 comes with it.
(By the way, the AT&T 6300 seems like a winner - it's about twice
as fast as the IBM XT, costs about the same, and is so compatible
that Venix and Xenix both run unmodified on it at twice the speed
of the XT.*)

However, ANSI.SYS is far from a wonderful way to write your software.
It's not very complete (for example, it can't do ED, that's "clear
to bottom of screen" in English, and it ignores the parameters to
EL as well) and it's awfully slow.  Most useful IBM PC software is
forced to write directly into display memory.

* I work for AT&T but if you know me you know I'm not biased in favor
of AT&T products.