On 8 Jan 2024 at 10:29, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote: ... > > Obviously something that does real-time operations should not be > burdened with a TSR. But it should also not be burdened with running > DOS on legacy hardware either. Nobody in their right mind is running > something safety critical on old PC hardware running DOS, so assume > there is some room for slop in the workload. >
I do meet people relying on a DOS app on old hardware every once in a while. They end up having an ancient DOS box controlling a key piece of machinery in the shop or something, sometimes not having a backup of the OS boot drive, afraid to open the hood on the PC etc. As for SNMP, I have once tried to write a client, from scratch, to do some simple queries. "Just a quick hack." There were comprehensive libraries at the time, that did stuff like convert ASN.1 MIB source code into C++ classes and then compile that... it dragged along a heap of dependencies, which I did not want to port from UNIX to Windows, so I started with a hardcoded minimal set of C++ objects to manipulate ASN.1 BER to implement what I needed... I got it to a stage where the queries principally worked, and then the skunkworks project got shelved, I left the job, things shifted IRL etc. Frank _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
