Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Michaels
I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS.  I don't know if OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads. C++ is getting a makeover by the way, it is getting native STL support for threads if I understand correctly.  I should

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 10-9-2011 9:47, Jim Michaels schreef: I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS. I don't know if OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads. Programs that are multithreaded either have to implement their own SMP support or rely

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 10-9-2011 2:57, Decheng Fan schreef: Hi Bernd, Nice to see your e-mail. I think there is still a long way for me to go, since I remember seeing a book about MS-DOS 6.00 published in China, which was about 400 pages. I will pick up topics that are interesting to me along the way of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 10-9-2011 9:47, Jim Michaels schreef: I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS. I don't know if OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads. Programs

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI C (C89) locale.h -- DOS compiler support?

2011-09-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Well, just a quick follow up, Just for completeness, I should mention that I notice that Digital Mars supports locale.h (not via COUNTRY.SYS) with a few countries in DOS: http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/locale.html

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread dos386
You'd likely __start__ with RBIL (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List) and I would NOT do this ... it's obsolete (last update IIRC 1998) and it's very hard to find the still useful stuff inside (but there is some). languages like Assembly (NASM, TASM, WAS FASM

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 10:35 PM 9/10/2011, dos386 wrote: You'd likely __start__ with RBIL (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List) and I would NOT do this ... it's obsolete (last update IIRC 1998) and it's very hard to find the still useful stuff inside (but there is some). Nonsense. DOS is officially dead before that, so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-10 Thread Decheng Fan
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 10-9-2011 9:47, Jim Michaels schreef: I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS. I don't