At 09:53 AM 8/4/2011, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ralf A. Quint <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 10:20 PM 8/3/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >>In my defense, I maybe? should've just taken the easy way out and used > >>DJGPP (which is 20+ years old, and that's as DOS as it gets, almost > >>...). But I didn't see a huge need or advantage. > > > > Never really was "DOS", always an attempt to prevent those Unix geeks > > to have to adjust to DOS. > >Well, it's as "DOS" as you can get with a 32-bit DOS extender and >POSIX support.
P.O.S.IX >:-} , that's your problem right there, the very basic explanation why it isn't DOS... ;-) >I'm not sure I agree. There's just too much crappy C code out there. >Worse is that most people force POSIX and fragile / confusing >AutoTools on everything. And when code assumes certain-sized ints, >GCC, etc. etc., you'd almost be better writing your own from scratch. >(If your "configure" is bigger than your total source code size, >you've done something wrong!!) See the previous paragraph... ;-) >Yes, but "most" (??) people won't complain if you personally don't >support MBF, at least not initially. BTW, I guess you've seen this: > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/35826 Well, yes and no. It's just another explanation for the loss in precision between MBF and IEEE754 >My first PC was a 486 Sx. ;-) PC? Well, my first own computer was a KIM-1 >:-} > > IEEE-754 compatible FPU are part of every Intel CPU since the 486, > >Correction, 586. ;-) Sorry, but I am right here. The i486 was the first Intel CPU to include the FPU, well before the Intel Pentium... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486#Differences_between_i386_and_i486 The i486SX was a stripped down version of the "standard" i48DX without the FPU. > > I had a look at it a short while ago and it absolutely isn't. It is > > it's own beast all around. QB64 however seemed to be pretty close, > > more impressive though if you check out the Mac OS X version for it... ;-) > >Haven't tried it, but it's "huge" (or so I hear). 13.6MB for the OS-X version. 21.5B for Win32 and 9.4MB for the Linux version isn't "huge" compared to a lot of other development environments... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
