[ros-kernel] Re: Gcc and binutils release

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

At 12.27 15/10/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Btw, I guess the M$ developers still have to use VC 1.52 (16 bit) to build
>the WinXP boot code. ;)

Yes, but they're pushing Intel to drop 16 bit support eventually. Have you 
seen Windows 2000? it doesn't identify partitions by ordinal, but by GUID: 
it's a preview of what we'll see with the Itanium architecture, and with 
Microsoft's Windows XP 64bit (on the current architecture, however, it's 
just a royal pain in the a**: even resizing a partition makes Win2k beleive 
it's been deleted, thus changing its GUID and reassigning its mount 
points). All the partitioning scheme will be cleaned up from ugly 
inheritances as the Extended partition and 16-bit code in boot-loaders

Anyway, I'm pretty sure they continued to update their 16 bit compilers, 
internally. For example, I recall reading in Matt Pietrek's Windows 95 
System Programming about Win95's kernel having been compiled with something 
like a compiler generating 16bit executables with 32bit addressing...

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