dmd platform support - poll

[Walter Bright]

Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 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.

C is the best language for DOS. Just as C is no good for 8 bit 
programming, C++ and D are just not suited to 16 bit programming.