DOS ain't dead - University Challenge

University Challenge (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 22.03.2022, 23:09

> Hello glennmcc, hell kerravon,
>
> > " University Challenge
> > It is September 1986 and the Compaq Deskpro 386 has been released.
> > This time the 40 MB drive has a PDOS/386 distribution installed on it.
> > It contains pure public domain code. Due to the limits of what has been
>
> Hmm... ?!?! This "challenge" still does not make much sense to me. What
> exactly will be the payoff for this challenge — and will I need to
> travel back in time to 1986 to collect the payoff?

Some people do crosswords to "keep the gray matter
ticking". There is no actual payoff besides that.
Personally I'd rather see people improving SubC
to "keep the gray matter ticking", and now they have
a distribution that allows them to do exactly that.
Even if the hard disk on their computer breaks.

It is unclear whether there is some commercialization
possibilities available now that a public domain base
is available. You never know what the free market is
going to produce next. It's fascinating.

It is also unclear whether this is useful as a
teaching aid.

Also I think it is important to preserve the
techniques used to get here in the first place,
particularly the use of a "monitor" rather than
a modern debugger.

BFN. Paul.

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Complete thread:

University Challenge - kerravon, 20.03.2022, 18:14 (Announce)
- University Challenge - tom, 21.03.2022, 21:39
  - University Challenge - kerravon, 21.03.2022, 22:17
    - University Challenge - glennmcc, 22.03.2022, 19:06
      - University Challenge - tkchia, 22.03.2022, 20:59
        University Challenge - kerravon, 22.03.2022, 23:09
        University Challenge - tkchia, 23.03.2022, 22:13
        University Challenge - kerravon, 25.03.2022, 21:39
        University Challenge - tkchia, 25.03.2022, 22:04
        University Challenge - kerravon, 25.03.2022, 22:17
        University Challenge - tkchia, 25.03.2022, 22:40
        University Challenge - kerravon, 25.03.2022, 23:55
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 00:04
        University Challenge - kerravon, 26.03.2022, 00:49
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 07:03
        University Challenge - kerravon, 26.03.2022, 07:59
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 08:18
        University Challenge - kerravon, 26.03.2022, 09:26
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 09:35
        University Challenge - kerravon, 26.03.2022, 12:35
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 26.03.2022, 19:53
        University Challenge - ecm, 26.03.2022, 20:44
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 26.03.2022, 21:02
        University Challenge - ecm, 26.03.2022, 22:09
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 26.03.2022, 23:23
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 01:05
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 08:01
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 08:39
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 09:01
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 10:58
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 11:13
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 11:28
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 11:26
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 11:34
        University Challenge - tom, 27.03.2022, 13:35
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 14:05
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 27.03.2022, 19:24
        University Challenge - tom, 27.03.2022, 19:47
        University Challenge - kerravon, 28.03.2022, 00:48
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 28.03.2022, 03:37
        University Challenge - kerravon, 28.03.2022, 08:29
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 28.03.2022, 18:38
        University Challenge - kerravon, 28.03.2022, 19:09
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 27.03.2022, 14:40
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 08:43
        University Challenge - marcov, 27.03.2022, 17:59
        University Challenge - kerravon, 27.03.2022, 23:15
        University Challenge - marcov, 28.03.2022, 07:42
        University Challenge - kerravon, 28.03.2022, 08:34
        University Challenge - tkchia, 27.03.2022, 07:43
        University Challenge - Stop this - ecm, 26.03.2022, 12:00
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 00:15
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 25.03.2022, 23:37
        University Challenge - kerravon, 26.03.2022, 00:02
        University Challenge - tkchia, 26.03.2022, 07:06
        University Challenge - marcov, 26.03.2022, 11:33
        University Challenge - glennmcc, 26.03.2022, 20:28
      - University Challenge (using SubC compiler) - Rugxulo, 27.03.2022, 18:45
        University Challenge (using SubC compiler) - kerravon, 28.03.2022, 00:42
        ISO 7185 Pascal (p5, p5c) -- public domain - Rugxulo, 09.04.2022, 04:07
        ISO 7185 Pascal (p5, p5c) -- public domain - marcov, 09.04.2022, 12:36