On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Simons, Don wrote:
> While I'm on the subject of future releases, if I do keep pmxa and pmxb
> combined (as I would prefer), I will not be able to use the trusty old
> compiler that's been making those nice compact binaries...the combined code
> is just too big for the old compiler/linker to swallow. This leaves me only
> with MS Powerstation, which creates binaries that will run in a DOS sindow,
> but require Windows 95 or better to be present. Let me ask once again to
> hear from people for whom this would create a problem. I.e., is anyone
> running a DOS version of PMX on a machine that doesn't have Windows 95. I
> cannot see any way around this problem at the moment and I fear that DOS
> users with older systems may either have to upgrade their hardware or be
> content with older versions of PMX. (Is this the ultimate price I'm paying
> for programming in FORTRAN?).
>
I should think there are hardly any DOS-only users left nowadays. However,
if there's really need for an MS-DOS version, we may be able to compile
the Unix/C version on DJGPP. That'll still require an i386, but I can't
see how you can survive with tex on anything older than that.
cu
Stef \:')
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