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About Open Watcom's Debugger WD (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 19.12.2012, 21:01

> Recently I experimented a bit more seriously with WD. The results of this
> experiment so far are:

Very good to know. I guess I'll mirror it on iBiblio for us.

> Hopefully the bugs will be fixed in the next OW release also, but who knows
> if there ever will be one ( there are plans to extend OW for 64-bit, but
> there's a "certain" probability that this won't happen because of limited
> resources ).

Since Google Groups doesn't mirror their newsgroups anymore, I've not really been following their latest very closely. For sure, it's been a while due to various reasons (esp. new maintainer), and yes they do have several ambitious plans for the future, but I have no doubt they are working on it. But I have no idea when that can be reasonably expected. (64-bit already was half done for Alpha, but I too doubt that will be finalized before next release. More likely is more Fortran updates and other minor things.)

> Btw, apparently there exists a book about the hx dos extender:
> http://www.amazon.com/HX-DOS-Extender-Othniel-Hermes/dp/6200954720
>
> I didn't buy it and don't know what it contains - does somebody know if
> it is serious?

I hate to be cynical, but it seems like a quick money grab. The guy seems to have tons of other "books", all overpriced.

"the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online" ... "52 pages"

Complete thread:

• About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Japheth, 19.12.2012, 09:55 (Announce)
  • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Rugxulo, 19.12.2012, 21:01
    • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Arjay, 20.12.2012, 06:21
    • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - RayeR, 21.12.2012, 02:45
  • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - DOS386, 20.12.2012, 04:05