Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/02/18/05:37:44
On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, Cuthalion / Sliced Bread wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:
>
> > (A book of interrupt info that I have says that on a PCjr `AH=5, int 0x16'
> > instead means `change keyboard layout language'. What is a PCjr and how common
> > are they? This incompatibility between makes of PC threatens to be slightly
> > disastrous to me.)
>
> The PC Junior was never really popular. It was release at around
> the time of the 8088 (give or take two or three years) and had a colour
> screen, I beleive, which was like a big thing at the time. I have only
> once seen one, and that was when my high school was sending old computers
> (//e's, TRS-80, an original XT) to the place where computers are
> eternally blessed.
>
> Don't worry about them. By chosing DJGPP, you lose compatibility
> with anything below 386 (Why did I almost write that in hex?) processors,
> which the PC Jr certainly has. This may be wildly inacurate, but my
> impression is that the PC Jr is a more gamerish XT. (I don't know where I
> got this idea, having never actually seen a PC Jr that was plugged in. :)
Back when they were popular, I used to know someone who had one. They
had CGA graphics, as I recall (didn't know it was called CGA then), and
they came equipped with a menu-driven program that allowed the user to
never have to see a DOS prompt at all (oh, goody...). At the time, I
seem to remember that I was using a Commodore 64. Anyway, about
compatibility, as people have stated, you need not worry about djgpp
compatibility, and if you are using a different compiler, don't worry
anyway, most every pc jr. has been long since 'upgraded' to work as a
paperweight. :-)
-Jon
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