On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> The question is why Jiri forked the code, and how much he *cares* >> whether it works in FreeDOS. >> > The changelog for his version lists a couple of things related to DOS. Hopeful. > The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be > used with FreeDOS. If the official site would be down for good and > Jiri's fork doesn't work right, the the pooch is pretty much screwed... The pooch arguably *has* been screwed for years. DOS is a legacy OS few folks have any real reason to care about. People involved in things like compiler writing will be targeting Windows, Linux, and the like. Even the embedded market is being taken over by things like 32 ARM CPUs without the "real mode" issues involved in systems running 16 bit Intel architectures and the bewildering variety of memory models DOS programmers had to deal with. If Jiri's current builds don't work in FreeDOS, the question becomes "Is there anyone *able* to create the needed patches to make it work involved and contributing code to Jiri's fork?" If the answer is "No, there isn't.", then you live with what is provided by the last builds that *did* work. Meanwhile, try a current build and see what happens. > Ralf ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
