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From: kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Prolog, Borland, & Generic Versions
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 18:52:37 EDT
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[ "Send lawyers, guns, and money ..." ]

> Besides, smart use of DOS screen I/O (like, for instance, using nansi.sys
> and large, raw writes to DOS) can net the application developer screen I/O
> that approaches the speed of direct screen update.  And it can be portable!
> You'd be surprised.
> -- 
> 	- bc -

Yep.  Even using the straight ol' MS-DOS int21 calls one *can* get reasonable
performance.  For example, the TurboPascal editor is alot faster than several
specialty editors I have seen ... and in the generic MS-DOS version, that's
all it does use (int 21's).  In fact, the TurboPascal editor is my editor
of choice for just about everything except applications that really require
"word-processing" capabilities (since <sniff> Mansfield Software's KEDIT is
only available for PC-DOS machines).

/kim
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