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Technology Stocks : Microsoft vs. Linux

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To: dybdahl who wrote (9)	2/1/2001 11:14:59 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 32

one thing which really irked me about win95, was the way they started clearly the keyboard buffer after an alt-tab, but before the new, desired window was 're-loaded.' to this day i alt-tab to a dos box, start typing in the command, and by the time the dos box comes up, the first letter or two of the command are lost. this never happened under win3.1. i like your ideas about making money with linux. myself, i need to learn to program using ncurses. i would like to write a series of text-mode apps, including games. i have faith that there are enough people out there who still enjoy text mode, that writing apps and games would not be a waste of time. do you know whether ncurses is quick to write to the screen? under dos you simply designated a pointer to the video card's text mode address and set the values for the various screen 'cells,' using offsets from that pointer (xB000 if memory serves). andy

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