Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

[Walter Bright]

On 7/9/2018 6:50 PM, John Carter wrote:
> Nothing creates flaky and unreliable systems more than allowing them to wobble 
> on past the first point where you already know that things are wrong.

Things got so bad with real mode DOS development that I rebooted the system 
every time my program crashed, making for rather painfully slow development.

Salvation came in the form of OS/2 (!). Although OS/2 was a tiny market, it was 
a godsend for me. I developed all the 16 bit code on OS/2, which had memory 
protection. Only the final step was recompiling it for real mode DOS.