[Freedos-user] Direct hardware access and the future...

2011-08-22 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Direct hardware access is practically speaking the fastest way to go, but it is not the most maintainable approach. The problem with using say WordPerfect or MS Word or Visicalc even, hardware is changing. The printers of the MS-DOS era have largely been replaced by networked printers and USB

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

2011-08-22 Thread japhethx gmail
What stopped the plans? Only Japheth knows ... I guess you're refering to this: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=4486 Nothing stopped the plans, but it's delayed a bit ... and I happened to implement 2. before 1. Are yu going to complain about this? JWlink is now in a