DOS ain't dead

FPC for DOS ??? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.05.2008, 05:46

> And D maintainers dropped DOS
> decades ago and build now on XP SP2 (Vista ASAP ?)

Well, it's what people use, so building on XP isn't that uncommon. But no, Vista is completely ruled out, anything significant (e.g. GCC) needs > 32 MB of DPMI, which is the hardcoded limit to Vista (even SP1). Unless you want to run under QEMU, BOCHS, VMware, etc.

Complete thread:

• Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Laaca, 29.03.2008, 17:14 (Announce)
  • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Laaca, 29.03.2008, 19:56
    • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Rugxulo, 31.03.2008, 00:37
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Laaca, 31.03.2008, 17:49
    • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 31.03.2008, 21:49
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Laaca, 01.04.2008, 16:08
        • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 01.04.2008, 16:20
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Steve, 01.04.2008, 16:56
        • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 01.04.2008, 17:05
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 04.04.2008, 10:52
    • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 04.04.2008, 10:27
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Laaca, 04.04.2008, 19:02
        • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 08.04.2008, 11:05
          • LFNs in FreeCOM - Rugxulo, 08.04.2008, 15:46
            • LFNs in FreeCOM - rr, 08.04.2008, 18:09
              • LFNs in FreeCOM - Rugxulo, 08.04.2008, 18:31
        • FPC for DOS ??? - DOS386, 01.05.2008, 05:13
          • FPC for DOS ??? - Rugxulo, 01.05.2008, 05:46
            • FPC for DOS ??? - DOS386, 01.05.2008, 05:53
  • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - marcov, 30.04.2008, 14:17
    • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 30.04.2008, 16:45
      • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - Steve, 30.04.2008, 19:51
        • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - rr, 30.04.2008, 20:49
        • Patched units for FPC 2.x.x - marcov, 30.04.2008, 23:14