Hi again, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:03 PM usul <usul.the.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it. > And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have > tested also dogged a bit.
UMSDOS wasn't maintained after the 2.4 kernel series. If it's too slow, you'll have to dual boot. > I might install suse with xcfe on it. That seemed to run the best. Though I > have never done any linux development. and the last time I really used it, > ZipSlack and Mandrake were still a thing. :) I also used to be partial to Minix 2.0.4, e.g. DOSMinix, but IIRC it only properly ran atop FAT16. It was a slim POSIX environment with a C compiler. * http://download.minix3.org/previous-versions/Intel-2.0.4/ > I did find a copy of "Undocumented Dos: A Programmer's Guide" > https://biblio.co.nz/9780201632873 and a bunch of my old C\C++ books. C++ has changed A LOT since the old days. I don't really grok it, but C++20 is the latest (modules!), and GCC (now written in C++) defaults to C++17 by default. So most (?) stuff should work with DJGPP's build of G++ 12.2. * https://isocpp.org/tour > So as soon as I get the items loaded this higher memory and 32 dos extender > stuff remembered and djgpp or w/e up and running the better. I had an ancient GCC 2.95.3 archive (DJGPP 2.03p2), if you're curious. (Apparently my Google Site was deleted, sigh.) It was a .7z file that fit on a 1.44 MB floppy (good for unpacking to small RAM disk). I can add it to my Google Drive later for you, if you want. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
