DOS ain't dead - CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z)

CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) (Announce)

posted by marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00

> >
> > So - I vote for switching into cwsdpmi r7 in official distributions.
>
> In fairness, marcov is not the DOS maintainer, doesn't use DOS, and he has
> enough to do (work, FreeBSD, updating FPC mirrors).
>
> But it does seem silly. It's like me saying "8.3 is good enough" (which it
> is),

(not for me)

> but nobody wants to use that when LFNs are available, certainly not
> marcov. ;-)

I don't care about SFN, as long as such problems of the dosport don't effectively limit other platforms. And it is the problem of the dosport maintainers to find solutions to do so.
(just like amiga volume support is a problem of the Amiga people, and symlinks for Unix people. (well, Vista+ has symlinks, but that hasn't really sunk in yet)

> But I guess it's easy to marginalize DOS when there are
> very few "GO32v2" users.

There is no marginalization. The point is and was that the Dos platform currently doesn't hold up its own belt. Be it with testers, developers or release maintainers. Other people (specially Tomas and Pierre) do some charity work now and then, and that's it.

> Perhaps some of us need to benchmark build times
> with r5 vs. r7 (or even vs. HDPMI32). As for swapping, you can disable it
> (-s- or permanently via CWSPARAM or just use CWSDPR0).

I think the main question would be to test if cwsdpmi is stable and compatible and if a default install works with all places where dos binaries can be run. Speed is secundary only, since people that need the extreme can always downgrade to R7.

The textmode IDE is probably one of the most demanding apps.

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- FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 16.10.2010, 04:28
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        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Laaca, 19.11.2010, 11:10
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 14:52
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 14:43
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:21
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 16:08
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