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ACK i86/i386 output & DOS (Developers)

posted by tkchia Homepage, 01.04.2021, 16:50

Hello ecm,

> It probably wouldn't require great amounts of effort to add a simple
> "dos86" platform sharing the i86 code generator; at first, this would
> minimally only have to create programs that are loadable as DOS
> executables*, which consider what resources (memory etc) they are provided
> by DOS, and which terminate the DOS process when they exit. It should also
> (allow) switch(ing) to DOS's I/O functions instead of the BIOS's (which as
> I noted I think it currently uses; it is a while ago that I skimmed the
> source), though that is not strictly necessary of course.
In case you would like to know: I have been trying to add an "msdos86" target for ACK --- with some success: https://github.com/davidgiven/ack/compare/default...tkchia:tkchia/msdos86 .

Thank you!

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