On 12/1/2020 8:10 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
Hi Ralf,
OpenWatcom at least requires a 386 and additional RAM, I don't think it
is running on a 640KB 808x machine anymore. But there is for years an
Open Source 16bit C compiler, though a bit of a quirky one, which got
pretty much forgotten since Turbo C came out in the mid '80s. I started
to get a proper, easy to use release, but RL just keeps getting in the
way of things, and things didn't get easier since COVID hit... 🙁
What's the name of the compiler?
http://www.desmet-c.com/ under GNU (L)GPL.
Yup, that one. But there is no proper, easy to install version of the
ANSI style compiler and inclusion of things like the peephole optimizer.
And there is no manual to cover the ANSI version, the last printed
version only covers the 2.x K&R compiler. I have OCR'd the whole manual,
but it is a lot of work to adjust everything to ANSI syntax and
specially all the "screenshot" examples need to be redone from scratch.
And to be more useful, it needs to have a lot of the Borland style
libraries added...
For a while I tinkered around with the Japanese Cabezon Pascal compiler:
https://wiki.bttr-software.de/Cabezon/HomePage
Didn't get very far, because I lost interest a little. Still have some
small examples on my disk only.
I already have some ideas, but time flies...
Never heard about this one, so had only a brief look after downloading.
The biggest hurdle for a start is that both the docs and the comments in
the source code are in Japanese...
And I have right now the same problem as you, so much interesting
projects/ideas but so little time... ;-)
Why is FreeDOS a toy in this case? I think it is pretty much en par with
MS-DOS 6.x, for all practically purposes, just that less 3rd party
support for drivers for devices like network cards/chips ad printers for
example...
In what sense does FreeDOS have less support for drivers?
Maybe a bit bad wording on my part (after all, I wrote this a 06:00 in
the morning, with only one cup of coffee), what I mean is that in
general "DOS" has the problem of the lack of drivers for "modern"
hardware...
Ralf
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