DOS ain't dead

CM16 (Developers)

posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 27.04.2025, 19:57

Also note that:

1978 - 8086 released
1981 - IBM PC XT shipped
1982 - 80286 shipped
1983 - MSDOS 2.0 released

this is a computer science question - how to deal with segmented addresses - and some university professor could have theoretically sat down circa 1982 and said "oh - we have multiple meanings of a segment/selector - better sort out an executable format and/or programming technique for portability/future-proofing your executables".

Microsoft didn't force the issue until:

1987 - Microsoft C 5.0 with huge memory model support released

at which point some rearguard action could have been done (which is what I am trying to do now - almost 40 years later).

Complete thread:

• CM16 - kerravon, 06.04.2025, 21:30 (Developers)
  • CM16 - Japheth, 07.04.2025, 15:48
    • CM16 - kerravon, 09.04.2025, 10:05
      • CM16 - kerravon, 27.04.2025, 17:24
        • CM16 - kerravon, 27.04.2025, 18:36
          • CM16 - kerravon, 27.04.2025, 19:57
            • CM16 - kerravon, 27.04.2025, 20:15
              • CM16 - kerravon, 28.04.2025, 15:40