From: "Dr. Vesselin Bontchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (yesterday) > good old MS-DOS you just intercepted an interrupt vector and did whatever you wanted when the interrupt arrived -
Perhaps your memory is different to mine, but I remember all sorts of frustrating, nasty, undocumented problems with apps that just grabbed an "interrupt ... and did what they wanted". It was a support and maintenance jungle - but possibly you remember it differently to me. > but even Windows 3.x could do cooperative multi-tasking > while running over MS-DOS on a 640 Kb machine with a > similar CPU... Sigh. > Yeah. With the emphasis on 'cooperative'. Anything that broke the rules even slightly brought the whole house of cards down on it's arse. Or is this my memory failing me again :-). I'm not going to pretend that Palm OS was brilliantly designed, but I think your repeated howls to return to the "good old days of DOS" aren't taking into account that most of what you're working with is better designed and better documented than DOS ever was. I'm not disagreeing that you could do what you wanted in DOS and you can't in Palm OS, but that's life. I remember a huge mountain of things that just didn't work in DOS and do in Palm OS. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
