On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Marco Achury <marcoach...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At this point the options are to use emulators or to port DOS to new > processors (new x86 based or totally different processor family as ARM) > > For example www.raspberrypi.org is working on a very interesting low priced > ARM computer. > As our FreeDOS kernel is based mainly on C code, at least in the theory, is > possible adapt it to compile it on a diferent very processor-architechture. C *can* be portable. The language was designed in part to be easy to move to new architectures, and properly written C code can be ported without overwhelming difficulty. The keywords are "properly written". Doing so is *hard*. the programmer must be aware of what is and is not portable and avoid the latter, or keep it confined as much as much as possible to specific places that are hardware dependent, to ease the scope of the rewrites needed to move it. It is *not* just a matter of changing a few #DEFINES and re-compiling. If portability to new architectures is desired, you are *far* better off to start with Linux. > Marco A. Achury ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
