Ken Martwick wrote: > Sergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in part): > > DosPerl distro big enough, but it's not much slower than Unix version. > > Why on earth should the DOS version run _slower_? All Intel CPU's, > (with the possible exception of the Pentium Pro) run substantially > faster in real mode. When the added overhead of "multi-tasking" and > a multi-user OS are added in, the DOS version should do even better > in comparison. Every time I have considered using one of the many > UNIX text-processing programs, I have concluded that it would be > far quicker to write a custom program than to try to learn all of > the obscure commands of the program. > Ken Martwick When i say "not much slower" i mean not multitasking or learning of commands or real or protected mode of CPU. I mean that DOS memory managment slightly (very) worse than memory management in Unix. And Perl need lot of RAM, at least more than 64K in real mode. BTW Perl interpreter can not run in real mode, cos we can kill system with just as much as 1 string even in protected mode under Unix. Only one system, who do not allow me to do that was QNX. But it's realtime OS and it have to be stable. Sergie --
