Russ,
I implicitly stated I didn't mean to offend anyone.... Take it more as a
good-natured jab at 16-bit (and lower) OSes. REBOL was designed to be
easily portable to 32-bit and higher OSes, therefore implementing it on a
16-bit or lower OS would require a complete rewrite of a large portion
of REBOL.
We've looked at the feasibility of porting to DOS. Perhaps REBOL3.0 may
delve into this issue, but as I said above, it would have to wait until
a complete rewrite of the system.
If you want to pursue the issue, you could send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
asking whether or not we would consider supporting a 16-bit OS in the next
rewrite of REBOL.
Also, I'm sure if a developer came up to REBOL with a contract with the
requirement that REBOL run on DOS, I'm sure that would help push development
in that direction. However, many good 32-bit CPUs can be picked up for
next-to-nothing along with a lightweight 32-bit OS to go with it. See
Symbian, 3Com and many other embedded vendors.
I'm told I'm a very good-natured person, so maybe my remarks were read
with inflections different from what I intended.
*sorry* :-)
On 27-Oct-1999/13:49:02-4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>You (and Bo) seem to totally miss the point. I'm not talking about personal
>comptuer uses, but embedded systems. Designing, implementing, manufacturing
>them as products... not something for my own personal use.
>
>I'm quite serious about the Rebol on DOS question, but from Bo's sarcastic
>remark (if that's indicative of company policy) I can see it's fallen on
>deaf ears.
>
>R.
>
>At 12:59 PM 10/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>> While (hopefully) someone is looking, are there any plans for Rebol/DOS? I
>>> know... DOS is old and antiquated and has no multitasking or windowing
>>> features, but it IS SMALL, and FREE/CHEAP (DRDOS, FREEDOS, etc), and
>>> requires very little computing resources... ideal for many of the
>>> applications I'd like to pursue with REBOL. The philosophy of rebol states
>>> that it is intended for set-top boxes and the like, wouldn't DOS be a good
>>> candidate (w/o HD, just run from ROM/RAM) for implementing such things?
>>
>>Why not grabbing an old Amiga 500 for such kind of stuff. And there you
>>really have more than 8+3 characters. Or an A1200 which could give enough
>>animation capability and video compatible output ideally usable in set top
>>boxes ;-)
>>
>>--
>>Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://helios.home.pages.de
>>PGP: http://home.pages.de/~helios/autor/wie-erreichen.html
>>
>>
>>
>
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