pardon me, SIG-M library was for CP/M
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/SIMTEL/SIGM/
that was back when I had a xerox 820-II - I modded a terminal case to put the
computer and 8" DSDD disk controller in. I was going by memory.
SIMTEL is the library you are looking for. simtel has an msdos section.
http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/
there are multiple mirrors. just google simtel msdos.
>________________________________
> From: Rugxulo <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 12:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] resources, including JAVA JVM for DOS
>
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> - PC Blue library has msdos stuff http://cd.textfiles.com/pcblue/
>
>Looks like old stuff (figForth? quite ancient). The descriptions are
>quite bare, so I don't know how much is useful.
>
>(FreeDOS heavily prefers free/libre these days, BTW, which I'm
>assuming most of that isn't, sadly. There is a lot of old DOS software
>out there, but a very small subset has sources, much less permits the
>"four basic freedoms". Just saying, it's kinda a deal breaker to some
>people.)
>
>> - SIG-M Library has MSDOS stuff
>
>Where is that? (BTW, I'm not sure where you're coming from here, heh.)
>
>> - Java JVM at one time ran on MSDOS (I have this) has a version 0.1.6?
>> something like this), came as a zip file, and came with example programs. I
>> have vm_dos_016a.zip but I found this:
>> http://zxxl.com/files/jvm/ms-virtual-machine.htm
>
>N.B. I've never done any Java work, so someone else (e.g. Eric) would
>know more about this than I do.
>
>That link above doesn't show anything obvious, but I didn't read too
>closely. I blindly assume it means the Windows version of J++.
>
>But I assume you're acutally referring to JavaPC. At one time (1997)
>that was available commercially for DOS, built via DJGPP. But we're
>talking old 1.1 Java, which was when it used green threads.
>
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp//mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/1998/07/26/12:00:23
>
>Have fun trying to get Oracle to open source it! ^_^
>
>> you may be able to
>> convince http://www.kaffe.org/ports.shtml to port kaffe to DOS.using djgpp,
>
>IIRC, Kaffe was already (half-)ported years and years ago, but it
>might've been a DJGPP v1 [sic] build. I don't think I ever tried it
>(buggy?). Probably easier to just build latest version (famous last
>words, and no, I'm not going to attempt that right now, heh).
>
>http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~grill/kaffe/
>http://www.kaffe.org/
>
>> I don't see any better C++ compiler out there.
>
>C++? Where did that come from? I thought we were talking Java? ;-)
>
>> AHH! I just found this JVM
>> for DOS on sf.net http://ledos.sourceforge.net/ the project page is at
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ledos/
>
>I've seen that too, IIRC it's just a 8086 Java (heavy) subset that
>still needs the SDK (or some such). Never tried it. Honestly, I never
>tried any of these, probably because they barely work, and I don't
>grok Java (tm).
>
>Even if you could get some of these working, they're too old. Java is
>up to, what, 7 (aka, 1.7 ?) ?? While I'm sure you could get some of it
>working, it's probably not a popular idea (for obvious reasons). GCJ
>exists, but IIRC, nobody ever bothered to get it working with DJGPP.
>GCC has already added Go and will soon add D, but it's unlikely that
>DJGPP will ever support either, at least directly. Similarly for GM2
>if it ever gets merged into trunk. (Even the Ada support is almost
>bitrotted. Not sure about Fortran or Objective C. It seems DJGPP isn't
>tested as much outside of C or C++.)
>
>I also remember Waba, which isn't Java but is somewhat similar in some
>vague way. You could take a look at that, but don't get your hopes up.
>
>http://www.thisiscool.com/doswaba.htm
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/waba/
>
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