On Wed, 03 May 2000, d-fader wrote:
> 1. It is NOT going to be windows-orientated... I don't want crashing
> programs... And besides that, DOS is 100x faster...
If you're messing with I/O ports, the chances of crashing your system may
be larger than when running Windows...
(by the way, Java runs fine under Linux too)
About the speed: DOS is not always faster. Many DOS tools come from the
16-bit era. I had a Java program beating Turbo Pascal on heavy math! And
using 32-bit code under DOS is possible, but not very convenient.
And even if DOS is faster in your case, do you really need the speed? It
doesn't matter if a screen refresh takes 1 ms or 10 ms...
Anyway, it's your project, so it's your choice. I just doubt some of the
motivations you stated.
> 2. The url which Ricardo gave me, doesn't exist!...
> (x2ftp.oulu.fi[/pub/msdos/programming/docs/[inter53*.zip]])
Maybe you forgot to put "ftp://" before it?
I can access the URL without problems (it is a little slow though).
Bye,
Maarten
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