farris@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Russell H. Farris) (11/21/90)
I have a GRiD Compass laptop that has ANSI.SYS "built-in."
It runs "pure" MSDOS software, but it is not hardware-compatible
with IBM PCs and clones. For example, it will run the ANSI
version of Micro EMACS, but not the IBM version. It runs Vanilla
SNOBOL4, but not regular SNOBOL4, and so on.
Are there programs that can somehow "grab" software
actions going directly to the hardware and reroute them though
ANSI.SYS? I realize this would slow down the operation of the
machine, but it would increase the utility of the computer
greatly.
I would like to find a vanilla interpreter/compiler for
any common language, especially C. I would also like to find a
word processor and/or data base program. Thanks,
Russ Farris (farris@marlin.nosc.mil) (619) 553-4129
Code 444
Naval Ocean Systems Center
271 Catalina Blvd "As for Gunnar I cannot speak,
San Diego, Calif 92152-5000 but his halberd is home!"
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