Re: Liberty-eiffel Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

[Raphael Mack]

DOS? - it was before me being interested in computers (beside an old
Schneider CPC64 with a cassette tape drive) so I am not competent to
answer the question. But I can tell that I wouldn't miss it.

Regards,
Rapha

Am Montag, dem 14.02.2022 um 13:13 +0100 schrieb Hans Zwakenberg:
> yes, we want to make it as simple as possible, but not any
> simpler...  :)
> 
> I'll take steps towards c-runtime simplification.  For now, I'm not
> throwing out DOS just yet, as many Intel-based controller boards may
> be using a derivative of DOS.  About keeping DOS for now, I'd
> appreciate feedback from our user-base and/or readership.
> 
> cheers
> Hans
> 
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> > Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:17:18 +0100
> > From: Raphael Mack <ramack@raphael-mack.de>
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> > Subject: Re: C-compiler support?
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> > A system is perfect if you can't remove anything from it :-)
> > 
> > Not always but in this case I would go for removing everything that
> > simplifies debugging, our life, whatever, as long as nobody is
> > using
> > it.
> > 
> > After 3 Days now I would say we can safely remove everything expect
> > x86
> > (32 and 64 bit variants) and PPC.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking care Hans,
> > Rapha
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, dem 09.02.2022 um 15:23 +0530 schrieb Krishna:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 14:48 Hans Zwakenberg,
> > > <hz@ocean-consulting.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > >  Hi Group, 
> > > >  
> > > >  do we really continue to support CRAY, RS6000, PowerPC,
> > > > HP9000,
> > > > VAX, SPARC, MC68000, NS32000, etc.? 
> > > >  
> > > >  The C-runtime (esp. base.h and base.c) could be so much
> > > > simpler
> > > > and easier to validate when support for all of the above legacy
> > > > systems were dropped?  Is there any merit in keeping that old
> > > > stuff?
> > > 
> > > Maybe just keep PowerPC?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > --krishna
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > >  cheers 
> > > >  Hans 
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