Hi, On 2/13/11, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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.) > > True, but it does mean I can't really usefully contribute code to > anything...
Okay, honestly, who really expected you (or any of us) to contribute to VirtualBox? :-) No, I just wanted to mention that I'd (very briefly) dabbled in all of those recently for DOS. I mean, since you prefer Wirth over C, I thought you should know. Besides, his birthday is in two days (Feb. 15). ;-) >>> My CPU - an Athlon64 X2 4600+, the last-ever Socket 939 CPU - does not >>> support hardware virtualisation. >> >> My new Intel laptop doesn't have it either. > > Yes, indeed. It's a nuisance. Well, anyways, if it makes you (us?) feel any better, sometimes things only work with VT-X disabled. And some OSes won't boot on modern hardware anyways. I had troubles with various ones. So it's a pretty big crapshoot no matter how you look at it. At least a slow emulator works slowly, better than nothing at all. P.S. Darek of emulators.com did a lot of work over the past two or so years to speed up BOCHS. He seems to really know his stuff, so if you're interested, check his site. (He also wrote an 8-bit Atari emulator for DOS way back in the day, among others.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
