18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
3:27 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:21:07 -0500
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: MASM 6.1 vs 6.11
16-bit Windows runs exceptionally well[1] on modern hardware, as
long as you can get driver support. And if you are doing
low-level programming on older processors, the tools are all DOS
based anyway. Virtual DOS sessions run well enough inside
Windows 3.11. And of course, you can run DOS and Windows 3
inside a virtual machine, i.e. Bochs on your favorite free 'unix'
variant.
[1]As well as 16 bit Windows ever _could_, I should qualify.
Thanks for the tip. The nice thing about the old crusty version that I
picked up is that it runs on an old DOS PC and it has the paper docs.
I'm not ancient, but online docs suck compared to paper.
Mike
That's the same reason I recently purchased MS Visual Basic 3.0 Pro, a nice
stack of paper manuals (compared to the 5.0 I purchased years ago which was
mostly just a cdrom and a small booklet). For some reason I feel like
messing around with 16 bit Windows 3.1 programming lately.