On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Ralf Quint wrote:
In general, it would be nice to see some people really programming FOR DOS
again, creating useful Open Source DOS application that people can actually
use. Not just trying to recompile some behemoth Linux took that isn't really
suited for DOS, and that to make things work require another behemoth
development system ported from Linux, shoehorning both into the limitations
of DOS.
This.
Hopefully GW-BASIC's open-sourcing will help a bit, although it was only a
very early, 1.x version. Back in the day I wrote tons upon tons upon tons
of code, and all of it in GW-BASIC until I found QBASIC (and had a machine
with more than 256K RAM), QuickBasic, and eventually Turbo C.
-uso.
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