Hi, On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: > At 04:20 AM 9/16/2011, Aitor Santamaría wrote: >> >>I was precisely wondering these days about RBIL itself, do you know if >>Ralf Brown is already working on future versions, or has definitely >>stopped working on it? (in case you have contacted him already). Posts >>here in the past seemed to suggest (IIRC) that there actually was a >>lot of work to be done and info to be inserted there from various >>sources and contributos were welcome.
Right, I always heard it was in need of a minor update with more to add or correct (esp. by Matthias Paul), but apparently that never happened. Well, it's not impossible, just very unlikely after 10 years. :-/ Then again, C99 and C1x .... ;-) These days Ralf seems to be still active in other areas, but apparently only on other projects: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmu-ebmt/files/ http://sourceforge.net/users/ralfbrown However, I have no reason to waste his time, so I won't. :-) > I think that Matthias mentioned long time ago > that some updates would/could be forthcoming, but > he has refrained from actively participating here > probably as long as I have, probably for similar reasons... Dunno. He hasn't been active in a long time, at least not publicly, and his website is quite outdated. He never finished a lot of things. (Sounds like most of us, heh.) He's probably just busy with real life, dunno, haven't ever really contacted him, IIRC. He's obviously a very savvy and smart guy, so his input would be nice! But yeah, I guess he's got better things to do with his time. He was heavily involved in DR-DOS back in the day, but am I correct in understanding that he cooperated a bit with FreeDOS too? (e.g. various technotes) Anyways, the most recent mention I had found of him was here (Dec. 2007): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/109018-windows-98-in-dr-dos/ >>I don't know what those sources would be, I have always wished there >>was more useful information on topics like VxD API functions, printer >>codes or such. And even a completely different reference but that >>would be useful (and not DOS related, or maybe yes), the DLL functions >>in the different Windows DLLs across times, something that you can >>hardly find out in books like "Undocumented Windows" and such... > > I think that would be largely beyond the scope of > an "Interrupt" list, even considering that for a > long time additional info like memory locations and port info was included. > There hasn't been any updates on DOS for longer > than there haven't been any on RBIL, so I don't > see why someone would seriously expect more recent releases. I find this hard to believe, but I guess? I can see what you're saying. "DOS" to most people means "MS-DOS", which is indeed long dead. I guess it would be more crucial if there was a portable (a la POSIX) standard for DOS. ;-)) Considering all the variants out there, it's not the worst idea in the world (IMHO)! > RBIL just as it is, is still a very valuable > resource for anyone seriously interested in DOS > related programming, but it seems the number of > people still interested (for real) in this is far > less than the number of updates for RBIL... To each his/her own .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
