>
> Perry,
>
> Cool! Thanks for the heads-up on that one. Excellent 16-bit compiler.
>
> I used Turbo C several years doing firmware development for an embedded
> 80c186 processor.
>
> We did not use DOS nor BIOS; we had the Paradigm "locate" program and
> burned the code into eprom. Wrote our own startup stuff.
>
> We had our own real-time kernel (it was initally written in 8080 assembly
> however) and I had to get *real* familiar with the code that Turbo C
> generated to get them to play together.
>
Sounds like the ELKS list has a good resource for using TC.
> At the time I had talked to Rick Naro (Paradigm founder) and he said it
> was possible to multitask the Turbo C floating point library. The float
> context is stored at the base of the stack segment in the first 500 or so
> bytes (i.e. SS:0000 -> SS:01FF). I never actually ended up messing with
> this however.
>
> Does elks currently have floating point support? Perhaps this would be
> a way to do it? (I just rejoined after being away for a year or so)
I don't think ELKS has floating point support yet, Alistair would be the best
person to ask this question to, I think.
>
> Scott
>
--Perry
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