johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) (06/05/88)
In article <13116@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth) writes: >The OS/2 Presentation Manager looks like a good approach to standardizing >the user interface. ... >... Has anyone heard of a C programming interface for >DOS that uses the same logical OS/2 PM windowing functions? This would >allow us to develop DOS applications that have the same *standard* user >and programmer interfaces. Thousands of centuries ago, when OS/2 was named DOS 5.0 and a 6 MHz AT was a fast computer, Microsoft swore up and down that MS Windows executables would run unmodified under DOS 5 whenever it came out. Unfortunately, IBM then invented SAA and made all sorts of random changes to the programming interface. (The binary format seems to be the same; Windows and OS/2 use the same linker.) Even so, the Windows programming environemnt feels a lot like the PM one, and is as good a place as any to start. -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something Rome fell, Babylon fell, Scarsdale will have its turn. -G. B. Shaw