DEBUG scripts? Wow. I miss those. The poor man's assembler. I dropped my PC Magazine subscription when it went all Windows, back in the late 90s.
This *is* the FreeDOS list, right? Haven't seen a post about that in awhile. Bruce On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's always DEBUG & QBASIC. :D Remember when magazines used to actually > post DEBUG & QBASIC scripts. > > -L > > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:54 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >>> At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote: >> >>>>An interesting historical note, early versions of the FreeDOS kernel >> >>>>(DOS-C kernel) were portable to the 68k architecture. See >> >> >>>> >>>>(<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani). >> >>> >> >>> Well, you noticed that in that reference, it also clearly states: >> >>> "This move to a completely different target platform, while losing >> >>> binary compatibility with existing applications,..." >> >> >> >> Which is your fundamental problem. Even if you move DOS to a new >> >> architecture, what do you run under it on that platform? There isn't >> >> anything, and there isn't a lot you can do with DOS all by itself. >> > >> > You'd have to port stuff to it. The easiest would be "strictly >> > conformant" ANSI C stuff (or similar), just a recompile away. If you >> > add a POSIX layer (like many do, and even PatV briefly considered for >> > future endeavors), you get that too. So you could recompile things >> > like gcc, vi, sed, awk, etc. Other older "legacy" stuff would have to >> > run under an emulator (a la AROS). >> >> > It's not as useless or impossible as it seems, but then again, I don't >> > expect this to happen (any time soon or if ever ...). "Just use Li^H^H >> > ... POSIX" (sigh). >> >> Neither useless nor impossible, but who will bother? There are simply >> too few folks with a need for it. It might happen a bit like Unix >> did, where some of the commands were programmers at Bell Labs >> scratching personal itches because *they* wanted a tool that did that >> and could create one. >> >> But while you can arguably do useful work (if you're a programmer, at >> least) on a bare bones Unix system with the standard utilities but >> *no* third party apps, DOS isn't in the same league. What can you do >> with *only* DOS and *no* apps? Not enough. >> ______ >> Dennis >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, >> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current >> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft >> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Sent from my meager, humble desktop computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
