Le 12 févr. 2011 à 22:09, Rugxulo a écrit : > There are several dialects of Pascals for DOS. And don't forget > Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon. Unfortunately, most are abandoned. But > yeah, I agree, C is weird. Nevertheless, the FreeDOS kernel uses it. > (VirtualBox probably uses C++, but I forget exactly.)
Yes they use C++ which rox (don't listen to linux freaks :p) >> I believe VirtualBox's software x86 emulation uses Ring 1 of the CPU >> to run Ring 0 code, which OS/2 does not permit. VMware, on the other >> hand, runs Ring 0 code through a software interpreter, which works. > > I also noticed in the past that eComStation 1.2 demo didn't run, but > they don't even seem to offer than online anymore (esp. since 2.0 was > finalized), so I can't test again. I think Wikipedia claims it's due > to pervasive use of ring 2 by OS/2. You might want to check tickets about OS/2 though, maybe it works now... http://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=os%2F2&wiki=on&changeset=on&ticket=on and the guest OSes list: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes It lists OS/2 as working under some conditions. François. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
