> >> FWIW, this means you can write 16 bit DOS > >> applications in Linux. > > > Uhmm, why would anyone want to do that? > > Good riddance to that stuff. > > Nostalgia maybe :-)
Nostalgia is acceptable. I still have an Apple ][ somwhere... though no copy of my apple floppies on something safe. But that compiler sounded like it was intended for writing 16 bit applications for a 1979 OS with 8.3 filename acronyms, when we're well into the 3rd millennium where 64 bit is very old (10 years?) and the 8 acronym has been overcome, albeit not the .3 part of it. Not by MS and Apple, and by assimilation, Linux (ff and oo and pretty much anything else fails to make use of it). It's always fun to program in a language or environment which is as featureless as possible; just not for getting anything useful done. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
