Ich find's ja super. Mit #WSL und Co sehen viele Menschen vielleicht mal ein, dass sich - überspitzt - nur wegen der Malwareschleuder MS #Office ein Windows auch nicht mehr auszahlt.
Der Upgrade-Pfad auf ein ordentliches #Linux wird immer einfacher.
Und dann merkt man auch, wie viel unnötige Reboots und Performance so ein Windows kostet.
@publicvoit I believe that making Windows a #Linux distro is going to happen within the next 5-10 years, probably as a concurrent OS branch first, like #NT was in parallel to the #DOS based #Windows of the time.
The economical incentives to not have to make their own OS and the compatibility benefits with the whole Unix/Linux ecosystem that currently drive Microsoft to maintain #WSL will eventually become too seductive for them not to do it.
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NMH BASIC (http://t3x.org/nmhbasic/) is a tiny BASIC interpreter for the 8086 that I wrote in the mid-1990's. It runs in 12K bytes and includes a minesweeper game that runs on a TTY. Of course a 12K interpreter was an anachronism in the 90's, but it still was a fun project. #retrocomputing, #basic, #compilers, #dos, #8086
Interesting... I'd assumed that #FreePascal's 16-bit #DOS cross-compiler was just ignoring the memory model I was setting. Turns out it wasn't, and I hadn't been reading the error messages properly. They're all failing for different reasons!
Surely I must be doing something wrong?
I'm struggling to find any information on issues like this, largely because hardly anyone uses it.
I might end up switching to the 32-bit DOS compiler, just to get something working.
I'm a masters postgrad studying #criminology with research interests in #cybercrime, digilantism (hacktivism, etc), and online deviance.
I also love #retrogaming (mostly #DOS games), #movies, and watching a lot of #tv. Sunlight burns but I sometimes go for little hikes and take camping trips with my dog.
1984, January 24th., Steve Jobs presented the first Macintosh Computer. We are glad to share our MAC POP Art, in tribute, in this Fediverse, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that milestone with You, today.
Since the #MS & #IBM#DOS wasn't much more than a terminal with local CPU, floppy/hard disk support, the operating system was a "pirated" clone of #CPM. Even when IBM teamed up with Microsoft to break copyrights of Digital Research & Gary Kildall's IP on CP/M, #MSDOS wasn't up-to-date since there was no GUI available. #portrait@art work made in #SVG with @inkscape
Just released dos2ansi v0.4, with lots of #DOS#codepage s supported and a testmode to display them.
The next nice feature would be to use the actual terminal capabilities if output goes there. Very simple on *nix-like systems (#Linux, #FreeBSD, ...), just link #curses and use the termcap functions.
Thinking about #Windows again, either I keep relying on #UTF8 support (since #win7 IIRC? and still a bit buggy) and #ANSI sequences support (since #win10) .... OR I attempt to use the native #Console#API there (using special functions to write in #UTF16 and other special functions to set colors, which would require a major refactoring first 🙄)