alt Hacker NewsYou could write your own GUI rather than using a text screen. I had to do that as I was working under OS/2 1.0, which didn't have the Presentation Manager. it did mean providing your own character set (ripped from VGA on DOS in my case) and mouse handing.
Btw, I'd love to know where this idea about no assembler programs on OS/2 came from. There was no problem at all with using MASM, with CodeView to debug on a second screen.
> Btw, I'd love to know where this idea about no assembler programs on OS/2 came from.
It’s certainly a misunderstanding - nothing prevents someone from writing assembly. Could also be a lack of official documentation on how to make the API calls from assembly. Another possible source is that you can’t access the hardware directly in OS/2, which was more closely associated with low-level programming.