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University Challenge (using SubC compiler) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 27.03.2022, 18:45

> 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
> released to the public domain, only SubC is available, which gives you a
> subset of C90. But it's better than having to write in machine code.
> Your challenge is to produce a 32-bit competitor to MSDOS using just what
> is on this disk. Theoretically everything you need is on this disk.
> Get the 40 MB disk image here."

SubC seems to be maintained again, but DOS support is broken. The latest DOS binaries date from 2014. It lacks some things (no strstr(), no sprintf(tmp,"%*.s",line), no goto, no parameterized macros) but otherwise compiles one very simple program of mine. It's very impressive, but SmallerC (BSD, 386+) is much more complete.

 

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