On 12/26/22 21:23, Chris via cctalk wrote:
>  I'm not conflating anything. Most of the time screen i/o is accomplished 
> using bios calls. That's with ms-dos/pc-dos software (whatever the percentage 
> of the time). But it's feally irrelevant if it's dos compatible or not, as 
> any code can make use of the bios subroutines. That's an immediate show 
> stopper if you can't get feedback from the compiler. Please no references to 
> early time sharing
Sure you are.  Lattice had no IDE; it was strictly command-line
driven--if the input required a text editor, it was up to you to furnish
one.   If the MSDOS hosting system used a BIOS, fine.  But not all did. 
Consider the MSDOS platforms that interfaced to a simple serial
terminal.  In any case, console and file I/O is done via the DOS API.  
How DOS does things is no concern of the compiler.

This is the way before fancy screen I/O that we did things.  Before
that, it was with punched cards.

--Chuck

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