I may have made a mistake about seeing some pthreads in one compiler... found
out native threads are threads given by the OS.
so never mind.
>________________________________
>From: Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com>
>To: "freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers
>
>
>I could see multithreading support in 7-zip.
>
>but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS. I don't know if
>OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads.
>C++ is getting a makeover by the way, it is getting native STL support for
>threads if I understand correctly. I should double-check the specs for TR1
>and TR2 to see if it's in those places, or if it's in the language spec. If
>nothing else, GCC is getting a makeover.
>
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>>From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
>>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 12:27 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers
>>
>>
>>Hi :-)
>>
>>> In fact , i running arachne with older pcmcia 11 mb drivers for wifi, BUT i
>>> can't use new pcmcia card wifi
>>> up to 54 and more MB ..
>>
>>Wireless is a pain in DOS, yes, sorry.
>>
>>> Impossible also using wifi pen
>>
>>See above, unfortunately. But some network cable.
>>
>>> or usb external device like printers /
>>
>>Georg / Bret drivers should work. If your printer
>>still does not work then, it is probably cheapo GDI
>>but slightly better printers accept PostScript or
>>PDF - hopefully also
good old plain text. Even for
>>GDI it might be possible to convert your print data
>>to something that the printer can use under DOS :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>> scanners or bluetooth...
>>
>>People still use scanners? I thought they used their
>>photocamera, then even the BIOS often supports your
>>SD cardreader in DOS without any drivers... ;-) As
>>for bluetooth, what apart from mobile phone headsets
>>uses that at the moment? I guess it could also be
>>used for wireless data transfer to mobile phones or
>>printers, but luckily both also have USB ports :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>> How many time we can continue use dos with OLDER hardware?
>>
>>DOS runs fine on my very modern hardware, thank you.
>>Even Linux boots in a fraction of a minute, not one
>>hour as dos386 suggests. DOS works great supporting
>>my parallel printer, floppy, SATA DVD drive etc but
>>you are right that USB3 drivers are not freeware in
>>DOS and no drivers for
hardware-accelerated FullHD
>>movie playback with surround sound over HDMI exist:
>>
>>
>>
>>In short, DOS does not NEED new hardware... But then,
>>I do not think we want to follow the Windows example
>>where people are actually worried that 2 GB will not
>>be enough RAM to write a letter in MS Office... ;-)
>>
>>I mean when your DOS EMM64 will support 16 GB of RAM,
>>where do you find DOS software needing that? Maybe a
>>Commander Keen with support for holographic screens?
>>
>>Would be cool, I guess. And would need multi CPU and
>>SLI accel graphics and NCQ, which all *are* not DOS.
>>
>>Eric
>>
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