From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Win 95 Console Stuff... 4 Nov 1997 00:02:03 -0800 Message-ID: <01BCE90E.3323CF10.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Jason M. Felice'" Jason M. Felice wrote: > As we all know, Win95's console support *sucks* -- it is slow as hell. > I've been thinking about ways to fix it. There are three ways that I can > think of: > > 1) Support for DOS (16 bit, DJGPP) isn't slow at all. It's just the Win32 > > 2) DirectX allows direct access to the graphics hardware, including text > > 3) We could write a VXD that would allow aware applications to write 4) We can run Windows NT and forget about Nightmare'95 :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".