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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: > > The current 3.0 sources have a dos-make.exe file in the archive, > don't know if that is actually working in DOS and with which > compiler(s), when I was looking for a free available Clipper/xBase > compiler to transfer an old DOS program to work in a newer Windows > environment, I used the 3.0 Windows executable, which actually > compiled and ran the +20 year old Clipper code in less than an hour... You seem to know more about Clipper than any of us! You'd be the guy to test / evaluate (old) DOS versions. Here's the only Clipper code I know of: http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-clipper-129.html ;-) Like I said, the latest (3.x) BCC55 compile *may* work in real DOS via WDOSX or HX, but I dunno. DMC may work too, who knows. > Microsoft had at some point bought a xBase product called > FoxBase/FoxPro, which then evolved into Visual FoxPro until it was > announced recently that VFP 9.0 (released 2007) will be the last > incarnation and they are dumping the product as they don't want to go > through a rewrite to make it 64bit to fit in their Windows 8 and > beyond roadmap... Hmmm? Where'd you hear that? Dumping stuff that isn't 64-bit? Personally I have my own theories and wouldn't be too surprised, but I'm not sure that's the truth. We'll probably see a 32-bit version of Win8, but by 9 they'll probably dump it (blind guess). Then again, if Win8 is truly two years away (like rumored), I guess anything's possible. > Is there still a need for this? Well, as you folks all are abandoning > DOS more or less, probably not... :-( "You folks" as in FreeDOS?? Or just in general? Not sure what this means, heh. I admit that DOS developers are very few these days :-( but there's no reason to abandon DOS. Heck, it might get relegated to VMs (esp. with UEFI and stupid AMD64), but it'll still "live" there. Didn't you hear that Intel's latest (circa 2010) cpus have VT-X for "unrestricted guest execution"? (I need to test this in VirtualBox, I have such a cpu now.) And AMD already (allegedly) has its own "paged real mode", so hopefully that means no more (extremely) slow, buggy DOS emulation. Personally I think 64-bit is overrated (and never gives the speedup it claims except in very rare number crunching), but it's unavoidable since nobody (ahem, MS) wants to support PAE, and everybody drools at having gigs of RAM (that they don't need, natch). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
