kerravon86

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Could public domain software be the key to world freedom?
3 points by kerravon86 9mo ago|0 comments
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by kerravon86 3y ago
Ah no, that doesn't constitute "proof" of the original statement. However, it does now introduce a burden on me to show one single example to prove that I have not (to date) dismissed everything that everyone said. Prior to t
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by kerravon86 3y ago
Own implementation of MSVCRT.DLL (C library - just C90) and KERNEL32.DLL (subset) too, that do 32-bit MSDOS-like calls.
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by kerravon86 3y ago
Source or binary? In both cases - it depends. PDOS/86 will certainly run some binaries. But if you say "what about xyz" the answer is likely "probably not". I don't have a lot of interest in 16-bit, so it'
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by kerravon86 3y ago
The huge memory model supposedly has a 4% overhead in practice, cited by someone who did such programming under OS/2. Personally I wasn't able to detect any slowdown at all, which is not surprising, because you are normally expect
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by kerravon86 3y ago
Exactly. Conventional wisdom said that the 16 MiB barrier was impossible to break. After that was broken, the next thing that was impossible to break was the 2 GiB barrier. That was broken too. I'm talking about 32-bit S/370 code.
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by kerravon86 3y ago
stdint is a fundamentally wrong thing to do. If people were doing int_least32_t or whatever, ok, maybe that fits in with the spirit of C. But not int32_t. "long long" itself is a fundamental violation of the original language too.
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by kerravon86 3y ago
Dismissing one phrase/sentence from one person is a different concept to dismissing everything from everyone. And I have counter-examples of people providing value information. Only one counter-example is required to dismiss the origin
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by kerravon86 3y ago
A guy turned up to the PDOS discord and said he had a mainframe, then after some discussion he invited another guy with a mainframe to join. Neither had hard disks though, so I had to IPL from (emulated) tape. There are photos in the hercul
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by kerravon86 3y ago
What does the UK and Australia consider Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to be? That's the concept, regardless of whether they (we) chose to name it differently.
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by kerravon86 3y ago
I dismissed "everything" that "everyone" said? What nonsense. Some people on the list made extremely valuable contributions. Some even provided extremely valuable code. Whatever this stuff was that I allegedly unreasonab
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by kerravon86 3y ago
I am the main author of PDOS. I am not claiming to "know better" (or even know what that means). And I don't recognize your description of "PCs ought" as an accurate description of my views. Or even understand what