From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch
Subject: Re: Filename for packages?
Date: 1998/10/05
Date: 1998-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4OKLHRmCBjbX@nedcu4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6vabm3$9pr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
> It's certainly nice to see the DOS version of GNAT finally appear, but I
> must say I am suprized that you have a "lot of students with DOS/Win3.11
> systems". These days when you can buy a perfectly fine Win/95 preconfigured
> system for a few hundred dollars, we very rarely run into this, if at all.
> I did a poll on my current undergraduate class, and of about 30 people, one
> was a Mac person, 5 were running Linux, and the rest either Windows 95 or
> Win NT. None were running DOS or 3.1, and in fact, another entertaining
> milestone, almost none had ever run these systems EVER :-)
I just want to add some comments (no polemic):
- If people having Windows 95 believe never having run DOS, they have maybe not
very often switched on their computer. Well, the "Starting Windows 95..."
message is a bit deceiving and could confuse beginners.
- The DPMI server is one of the things which suffers the least of subtle
differences between DOS/Win3.x, DOS/Win4.0 ("Win95") and Windows NT.
No surprise that people are interested in shipping DLL-free 32-bit
programs compiled with GNAT/DOS in order to run under Windows *.* .
Of course it doesn't concern students, so I stop here...
--
Gautier
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-04 0:00 Filename for packages? Renwick Preston
1998-10-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin [this message]
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-05 0:00 ` dewarr
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