I wrote (and used on several projects) my own DOS BIOS based windowing system. I could do menu's in DOS with absolute positioning (pop up menus where the user right clicked the screen).
I also wrote my own TSR, but an early version somehow erased my writable BIOS of my brand spanking new 386 (some bad assembly instruction I wrote not doubt). The early 90s were fun. I can still remember creating array's of pointer arrays to get past the 64K block limits. I started out programming C/C++ in the DOS environment. Then I moved to Win16, then Win32, then Java. I did a little Digital Unix with posix thread programming, but mostly I was doing M$ before Java. We used OS/2 to develop WIN16 apps b/c Windows crashed way too often for a developer machine. Control S, Control S, Control S was performed during think time. Make a small change... hit Control S 'cause Windows was coming down sooner or later. -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:00 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Web Framework debates online On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Rick Hightower wrote: > OS2 rules! NT sucks! > > Former OS2 user group member circa 1994... Dude... Open VMS is the shizzit! Never ever dis VMS in my presence. Dems fightin' werds! Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
