9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
2:18 p.m.
On 9 July 2014 18:11, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
OIC.
Find it hard to live without, myself, now I've got used to it. Going
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:24:41PM +0200, Liam Proven
wrote:
Well, for all that Robert J Sawyer & George R R Martin swear by
WordStar, I normally swore *at* it and think that 30y later it's
eminently whinable-about. :?)
Did you RTFA? It wasn't like that at all.
Blame the subeditor for the title.
I started to, but when I got to the Wordstar screen grab (which is
definitely whining) I lost patience. This was a more
dedicated exercise than I've ever bothered to do.
Getting DOS networked wasn't hard, but TCP/IP on it is not child's
play.
Definitely true. He certainly didn't take the lazy way out.
Do you use a multitasker, JOOI? DESQview or
something?
Nah, I'm just doing SW development, so I'm in the edit/MAKE/test loop
all the time (intermingled with crashes/reboots, depending how bad my
bugs are) and have never had a reason to mess with multitaskers. from Xenix back to MS-DOS 4, I even used the MS-DOS
Shell menuing GUI
app-launcher's task swapping capabilities sometimes.
I've had a little fun with SMP BIOSes though
(still haven't attacked
ACPI) -- just like with switching to prot mode and having DOS cluelessly
live on in V86 mode (which all DOS extenders and DPMI hosts do), you can
switch on other cores/processors and DOS won't mind as long as you only
ever call it on the boot CPU. You have to configure the hardware
interrupts to all go to that CPU through the 8259s as usual, to avoid
breaking anything. So obviously this needs a specially coded application.
:-o
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