Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Harald Arnesen via Freedos-devel
Liam Proven via Freedos-devel [10/08/2023 19.09]: Pascal -> Modula -> Modula-2 -> Oberon Various companies did their own derivatives and follow-ons, such as Modula-3, but those above are the Wirthian languages, and only them. Oberon-2, Oberon-07.-- Hilsen Harald Слава Україні! _

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 14:10, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > > What does DV have to do with DJGPP? > > I'm not sure it was *DJGPP*. It *was* based on GCC - and I do think it > was GCC 1 - but that's the extent of my knowledge. I vaguely know of DJ DeLorie's port of GNU C++ to DOS,

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 00:13, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: (DJGPP v1 SDK) What does DV have to do with DJGPP? I'm not sure it was *DJGPP*. It *was* based on GCC - and I do think it was GCC 1 - but that's the extent of my k

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 00:13, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I have never used Desqview nor Desqview/X So try them! They are easy to find these days. As a general rule, it is unwise to try to argue based on stuff you've never tried. > (DJGPP v1 SDK) What does DV have to do with DJGPP?

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
Getting reluctant to contribute here, because I think we are discussing and aiming at different things. On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 01:24, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > It's not a 286 hardware feature, no. > > > > It's a

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 23:23, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Microsoft Engineer "Steve Ballmer" ? > > Ballmer was on the business side of things at Microsoft. He didn't write > code. This. I think OP is getting faint memories of anecdotes coming out of MICROS~1 confused. There is