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From: root@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Xenix multiuser restriction
Message-ID: <677@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 10:30:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 10:30:40 1985
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In article <373@wdl1.UUCP> jbn@wdl1.UUCP writes:
>
>     Yes, indeed, Xenix on the AT runs in protected mode.  As Dr. Dobbs's
>Journal says ``throw away your hand-coded screen management routines''.  
>Applications aren't allowed to mess with the hardware or screen memory.
>Graphics?  What graphics?  This is UNIX.  You can position the cursor
>by sending escape sequences, and that's about it.
>
	Funny..  The AT&T 7300 has pretty decent graphics for cursor addressing!
	Also, plot, and a bunch of other graphics routines on my Venix system
	do pretty good, and not a "ESC=rc" in the bunch..

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.. that's the biz, sweetheart ..
Randy Suess
Chi-Net - Public Access UN*X 
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