On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > 16-bit is dead, no machines are made purely 16-bit anymore. AMD64 long > mode doesn't (properly) support 16-bit at all, and popular compilers > like GCC never cared to support it. Also, people hate it, so a lot of > C code uses 32-bit-isms, sadly. We can't change any of that.
There was once a FreeDOS-32 (32 bit) project being developed. What happened to it? Their website is still there, but not much news. Does anyone have some more info about the actual prospects of its development? (Guesswork is welcome too). > Turbo Pascal 5.5 is nice, but it's not "standard" Pascal(s) like GPC > (GPL, 32-bit, cross-platform, but not maintained) nor does it support > any of the newer features of even Turbo Pascal 7, much less Delphi or > others. So while FPC doesn't support 16-bit output, it does support > more dialects, better license (GPL), and cross platform support. > Though in this case, FPC isn't perfect because there is no DOS > maintainer, so it tends to bitrot, but most of that was fixed after > 2.2.x. Just to be clear, which is the best Pascal version available to date for FreeDOS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
