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
