I just read a book by Pete Peterson who worked at WordPerfect. I sent
him a note about his book. In his reply he mentioned that he had lunch
with Lew Bastian just two weeks ago.
Michael Shadel
National Contractor Services Corporation
DBA Arizona Contractor License Center
Utah Contractor License Center, Inc.
Cell: 602-499-4145
www.azclc.com
www.utclc.com
www.iContractor.net
On 8/14/2015 4:10 PM, Don Friedman wrote:
I am curious to find out if anyone has spoken to Lew lately.
*Don Friedman
ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC
PRS Data Systems
*
*205 S Main Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15215
412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE
412-784-1615 Fax*
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Patrick Riley <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've commented on this topic in the past as I too wish for a
32-bit version of DataPerfect.
I believe DataPerfect is written in Forth and know numerous 32-bit
Forth compilers and/or interpreters exist including a /Win32
Forth./ See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29
A Windows version of DataPerfect would be great but I'd be happy
with a 32-bit version that would run natively in current 64-bit
versions of Windows; operating in a DOS window would be a minor
issue compared to setting up virtual machines.
I may have missed it but I've never seen Lew comment on this
direction and would love to know his feasibility assessment of
this direction.
Thanks,
Pat Riley
505-750-4728 <tel:505-750-4728>
At 04:18 AM 8/14/2015, MEIRTE Danny wrote:
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_000_613B408086EE08439B9DFC97BC58DF08949671E2MAIL1museumafri_"
Sorry to hear that you consider a compiler 'swap' a dead end.
I hoped to solve the 64-bit problem as I did with all the helper
programs I wrote in QuickBasic (yes the compiler written by Bill
Gates himself).
Using QB64 I could compile everything in 32-bit so they should
work also in the 64-bit environment. With some minor changes in
the source code e.g. replace "END" by "SYSTEM".
I suppose that the programs generated just run in a DOS-window,
but do not start as 16bit DOS programs.
They need separate DLL files (to be stored in the same directory
or in a common windows directory) see
http://www.qb64.net/wiki/index.php/QB64_FAQ#Q:_What_files_are_required_to_run_QB64_SDL_programs_in_Windows.3F
Probably this is the only way to reuse the former source code,
where some DOS functions are transferred to the DLL's...
Might be a hint for those who want to save DP...
Maybe someone can find a way to 'adapt' the source code of DP for
a 32-bit compiler.
But as long as the code of DP is not open source, this is really
a dead end...
Lew was once thinking about a Win-version of DP, 'DPWin'...
Danny
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Jos Schaars
Sent: donderdag 13 augustus 2015 23:26
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Dataperf] Dataperfect and Windows 64bit Win7
I saw the message of MEIRTE Danny about DP 32 bit.
DP sources are targeted to produce a DOS program, calling DOS
functions!
Windows 64 bit simply doesn’t facilitate DOS programs, only
Windows 32 or
64 bit programs.
DOS programs always start off as 16-bit.
With MUCH programming effort, one could modify the source code
and link in a DOS extender. Switching to 32 bit mode, when
needed, and enable DP to access memory beyond the DOS 1MB limit.
So frequently freeing up memory by swapping to disk isn’t
needed anymore.
It would surely speed up DP processing when it runs out of DOS
memory. But DP would still be a 16 bit, with 32 bit extensions,
DOS program, not able to run in Windows 64 bit!
This is a dead end. If the source code would be available, the
only practical approach would be to add XMS memory management to
DP and let it swap to that.
Jos Schaars
_______________________________________________
Dataperf mailing list
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
_______________________________________________
Dataperf mailing list
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
_______________________________________________
Dataperf mailing list
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
_______________________________________________
Dataperf mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
_______________________________________________
Dataperf mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
