I tend to be very pragmatic with my code. For example, instead of trying to port existing libraries (and dealing with all of their dependencies) I'll usually just write what I need from scratch and do the bare minimum. Where that is not possible (HTTPS on an 8088 class machine) I'd go with some sort of proxy that meets the spirit of the requirement.
Anyway, I think the OP has been scared off so this is an academic discussion now. ;-0 On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:02 AM Frantisek Rysanek <frantisek.rysa...@post.cz> wrote: > 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 >
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