Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, again! On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:21 PM, Patrick wrote: > > I spent quite a lot of time studying Ada. Threading/tasking is nice but I > would rather wage holy war on blocking reads and stay single threaded. I > like COBOL and C and which are memory friendly.

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Patrick > wrote: > >> 3)I use vim on Linux, has anyone ported this over? It looks like there is >> FreeMacs, is this my best bet for a Unix like editor ?

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Patrick wrote: > > I just need to figure out the best way to network between dos and linux to > transfer the executable. FTP? If you have a working packet driver (e.g. QEMU or VBox, minimally), you can use mTCP. Or try

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 3/9/2018 6:00 AM, Patrick wrote: >> >> 1)I want to program on FreeDos, I want to use GCC ad I want to port over >> GnuCOBOL. > > My condolences on both counts. > GCC isn't really a DOS based compiler, it is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I compiled my program with DJGPP and let it collect > large amounts of data in RAM (2 GB would be easy) > and only used file I/O in periods which had relaxed > timing constraints. Because as said above, when you > (or

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Patrick wrote: > > 1)I want to program on FreeDos, I want to use GCC ad I want to port over > GnuCOBOL. Are there any books or resources you could recommend, I haven't > found much on the wiki. * news://comp.os.msdos.djgpp *

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Patrick
Hi Ralf Thanks for the feedback. I have actually had a lot of trouble with used computers. It's been power supplies and hard drives but almost everything else too, bad floppy/CD/DVD drives, bad fans, fried USB ports etc. Eric had a really interesting post today and I am following the other

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Patrick
Thanks Tom This is very useful. I think I am going to give cross building a try, this adds to some of my concerns about developing right on FreeDos.. My dos screen resolution is better now, thanks to Eric's tip but I have a dual monitor setup on Linux. The monitors are rotated vertically and

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

2018-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi list! >> Thanks for the SBC link Eric, I will look at these in detail... There is a similar discussion ongoing on the BTTR DOS forum, related to the plan to make a game cabinet running DOS :-) The most recent post wonders whether the >