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I made my own DOS implementation (Announce)

posted by samwdpckr, 30.03.2024, 20:09
(edited by samwdpckr on 30.03.2024, 20:32)

> For many years the world has already tried to deprecate and kill IA-32.
> Ubuntu doesn't support it anymore (since 2019?). Like I said, people are
> arguing over whether x64 v3 should be the new baseline or not.
I remember when Ubuntu used it as a "marketing advantage" against Windows that Ubuntu works on older computers. Nowadays Ubuntu is a complete opposite of what it once was. It is so bloated that even new cheap laptops cannot run it anymore.

And 32-bit x86 Linux desktop is already completely broken because of those idiots who insist that everything must be compiled for at least SSE2 targets. Literally nothing works and everything just throws invalid opcode errors. When the compiler is asked to generate i686, i586 or even i486 code, there is still SSE2 instructions everywhere, because the CFLAGS are overridden in multiple lines of the build scripts. It is a lot of work to make them actually work and then the next software update breaks it again.

At least command line tools still work on a Pentium II, which also has easily more than enough computing power for them. Everything happens instantly and the difference to new computers is almost unnoticeable.

The situation is already so crazy that I'm scared of installing software updates on a computer that is only ten years old and has an i7-based Xeon CPU, because I fear that the new version of some important package has instructions that my CPU does not support.

You cannot trust the archname in the name of the software package anymore. "i686" does not actually mean i686 and x64 may be basically anything.

> To some people, RAM unused is wasted.
I thought that the one of the basic ideas of multitasking is that one program cannot consume all memory of the computer. Aren't se supposed to have multitasking computers in 2024?

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