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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Feeping Creaturism
Message-ID: <8803112153.AA12118@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 88 21:53:28 GMT
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>port because Windows using an event-driven model similar to the Macs.  Porting
>graphics programs that don't use Windows would be very difficult to port
>because they depend on the hardware enviroment (ega vs. cga vs. vga) and
>not on any higher-level interface.

	Wanna bet?  Most major commercial programs use ascii streams to a 
device driver to handle *ALL* graphics output, with minimal calls to the
operating system beyond that.  Even CAD systems...

	Games, on the otherhand, usually go directly to the hardware.

>|	In fact, up until recently, compilers and assemblers on the IBM-PC
>|were woefully out of date.  Did you hear they finally upgraded MASM from,
>|what was it? compiled fortran? or was it compiled basic?  Can you believe
>|that?
>
>This happend a couple of years ago.

	About a year ago, I believe.  At least, that is when it was first
heard of in the co. I work in.

			-Matt