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From: hoff@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Tom Hoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.wanted
Subject: Re: How IBM-compatible is the HP 150?
Message-ID: <968@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 02:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 02:11:21 1987
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In article <350NU070156@NDSUVM1> NU070156@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Glen Overby) writes:
>     
>>- Is the display CGA or MDA compatible, or neither?
>>        (hardware-level would be nice, BIOS-level good, DOS-only boring.)
>Only DOS.  It does terminal emulation for DOS the same way as it does

Not true (I think).  There is a piece of software availiable which improves
the compatability of the HP150.  It is called PC.COM and is availiable on
Compuserve in the HP sig.  What it does (among other things) is emulate
the BIOS calls of the IBM PC.  Another emulater that is availiable is DC.COM
(Emulates IBM PC datacomm calls) and INT16.COM (emulates IBM PC keyboard
interupts).  Last time I checked, these were all on Compuserve.  Please don't
regard this as gospel, it's been quite a while since I've used a 150 and this
all comes from semi-volatile memory.

--Tom
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     Tom Hoff (...!hplabs!hp-sdd!hoff)
	"Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not a spokesman!"