Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

[Charles B. <chb...@gm...>]

That sound great.  Thanks.  I'll check it out.  I did look at K BASIC and
KDE BASIC on LINUX. Supposed to be backwards compatible with DOS's old
QBasic with a GUI IDE..  But damn, Ubuntu 12 is a big flaky monster.
Didn't like the feel of it.  8 was actually a pretty good OS but wankered
over now.


CB


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Travis Siegel <ts...@so...> wrote:

> If you want flat memory model, and unlimited disk space, it sounds
> like os/2 is what you want.  It's a real shame IBM stopped supporting/
> selling it.  Wonder if we could get IBM to opensource it.  Likely
> not, but it's a nice idea.
> As for windows, if you want to have flat memory models, and as much
> disk space as you can use in a programming language, check out
> powerbasic at http://www.powerbasic.com.  It's something I've used
> for years, and believe it or not, they still sell and support their
> dos version of powerbasic.  Of course, the dos one doesn't have all
> the nice memory/disk features the windows version of the compiler
> has, but there's nothing better for getting down and dirty with the
> innards of the os, and writing a console windows app that has no
> memory restrictions.  It's an excellent compiler, and no serious
> basic programmer should be without it.
> Unfortunately, for some reason, when I tried to get it added to a
> list of basic compilers I found somewhere, the maintainer of the list
> told me they wouldn't add it, because they didn't think it was it's
> own compiler.  I'm still puzzling over that one, but to each his own
> I guess.
> Anyway, the console compiler produces text-mode programs, that will
> use all available memory, run on any version of windows from win95
> through win8, and even their dos version of the compiler has some
> nice features, like tsr support.  It's a nice compiler, and for 49
> bucks for the classic version (I think that special is still going
> on) you really can't go wrong there.
>
>
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