dmd platform support - poll

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 26 14:01:02 PST 2008


== Quote from Adam D. Ruppe (destructionator at gmail.com)'s article
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 05:40:31PM +0000, dsimcha wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but who still uses 16-bit?  I thought even most embedded
> > systems in this day and age are at least 32-bit.
> I sometimes still work on old point of sale systems that run MS-DOS.

Yes, but D is explicitly *not* supposed to be for legacy systems.  Of course, I
wouldn't mind 16-bit support if it only affects things at an implementation level,
but I absolutely don't want the language to accumulate a bunch of spec-level
artifacts from this.



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