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

[Paolo Redaelli]

DOS, being it the proprietary MS-DOS or free-as-in-freedom FreeDOS 
(https://freedos.org/) still have a little place in the modern IT world.
A fading place I shall admit

Il 14/02/22 20:15, Raphael Mack ha scritto:
> 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
> >
> >
> > > liberty-eiffel-request@gnu.org hat am 12.02.2022 18:00 geschrieben:
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> > >     1. Re: C-compiler support? (Raphael Mack)
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> > > Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:17:18 +0100
> > > From: Raphael Mack <ramack@raphael-mack.de>
> > > To: liberty-eiffel@gnu.org
> > > 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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