On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:18 AM, François Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote: > > 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)
If I find C too complicated, C++ is definitely no better! >>> 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. That sounds right. > 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. Yes, *if* your CPU has hardware virtualisation. :¬( My PC is 6Y old and was a gift from a friend (although it needed a new heatsink and fan, graphics card, optical drive and hard drives.) It's too old, sadly, but as a dual-core ~3GHz 64-bit machine, it is more than powerful enough for my needs and I am not going to spend money to replace such a powerful free machine! -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
