Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 1995 07:28:11 -0500 (EST)
From:	Cuthalion / Sliced Bread <enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
Subject:	Re: interrupt handlers
To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

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. :)

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