| ??? 01/16/07 19:48 Read: times |
#130925 - So much for the "Good Old Days" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Peters said:
The application always talks to hardware through a driver ... The beauty of this is that the application can talk to a peripheral made by any vendor. Oh yes - remember the so-called "Good Old Days" of MS-DOS, when every single application had to have its own separate set of printer drivers... |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| doubt about ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| and one more doubt | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Programming the PC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Off Topic | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wrong forum | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Win ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bad practice... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bad practice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| some thoughts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Do not hard-code adresses! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You need to tell us more ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| MS-DOS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Misunderstanding ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not quite so | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a parallel in '51 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sharing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK, the sad facts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| MS-DOS will allow and do anything the PC can do | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ...and the reason is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| If Windows were truly multi-user/multitasking ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it's broken | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So much for the "Good Old Days" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, and the ones that worked, worked really well | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
The Right one | 01/01/70 00:00 |