[OT] Dos making a comeback

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 12 13:04:08 UTC 2018


On 7/10/18 2:37 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

All this talk about DOS, I also saw this in the news 
recently:https://kotaku.com/in-2018-a-pc-game-is-being-made-in-dos-1827463766

-Steve


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