Rugxulo, I could have looked up Z machine - was just pressed for time this morning. I try not to sound willfully ignorant. ;-0
(Which reminds me - I wanted to do a telnet server that used the Zork "virtual machine as a proof of concept. Now I know where to go start when I find the time. Zork on the internet via Telnet! Eliza would be another good one.) Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 is not freeware, but I don't think it is hard to find. I have sold a few copies that I personally rescued from the trash in the past year or two for a nominal amount. It runs well on a 386 or 486 and is easy to use. Look for a copy on eBay, the Vintage Computer Marketplace, etc. It can be used without the manuals by somebody with a little experience. Open Watcom is open source and readily available but it is quite overwhelming for a newbie. It took me a while to get over my fear of it, and I had plenty of experience with TC++, gcc, IBM's xlC, etc. But I'm happy I made the switch. Jim Leonard is a Turbo Pascal bigot. I think he's stuck in the mid 80s. :-) To be fair I think he uses it as a loader for his assembler code. Any reasonable compiler and development setup is probably best run on a 386 or better machine, unless you are using something like Turbo Pascal 3.0. TP 3.0 actually ran well on the oldest hardware, and fit too. Most of the C compilers have just too big of a footprint. As much as I like my PCjr and 5150/5160s, I still do most of my development work on a Windows XP machine and I test in DOSBox or a virtual machine. I did most of the mTCP development work on a 386-40, but my current setup is far more productive. (And all of this reminds me that I need to do a series of web pages or a Wiki on getting started programming in DOS. It is a dying art ...) Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
