On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> I am very eneasy about going down any road that involves the use of far
> pointers. The compiler is currently pretty stable, and the system is
> getting there which is quite remarkable given that we have no real memory
> protection. If we start adding new features to the compiler or shift over
> to another one, or start widely using far pointers, I am worried that
> we lose the stability we have worked for so long to achieve.
So you wanna stay here forever? Hmmm, not a good idea IMVHO.. We'll have
to do far pointers SOME TIME, we can't put it off forever can we?
IMVHO, if we don't have Far pointers, you might as well use DOS. There you
DO have support. But that's not my intention...
> In any case we lose nothing by building a test implementation.
IMVHO we do: We lose time. Progress on ELKS is slow enough as it is all-
ready :-/.
> I intend to have a go at this and intend to have the bulk of the code
> written by the end of next week.
>
> Al
Just my 0.02 Euro anyway...
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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