9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
4:11 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:24:41PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
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.
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.
John Wilson
D Bit