Re: Information on a Gnuplot version

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 23.04.2024 um 23:53 schrieb Spencer Delorenzo:
> Hello,

> Per the subject, I wanted to ask about an early version of Gnuplot. I tried 3.7.3 on my IBM 5150, and it hangs. 

Did you just run an existing binary, or build your own?  I ask because 
at least my 3.7.3 binary package we still provide on SourceForge is 
built for 286 or higher, and expects a floating-point coprocessor.  Most 
binaries of that era did.

> Might be the 8088, 

Those are of course things which that machine does not have.

So at the minimum you would have to build your own.  Compilers that can 
do it are out there.  E.g. OpenWatcom

> but I wanted to ask which version is the latest that supports it, and if you’d have a copy of it.

I see no particularly strong reason why gnuplot versions of the 1990s 
should not work on a 5150 with 64 KiB RAM.  Newer ones will run into 
memory size problems, but the old ones worked just fine under MS-DOS, 
even on 16-bit machines.

Old version can still be found in several sites archiving such things. 
Funet.fi, e.g. still has source tarballs of versions 3.2 to 3.5.