Mail Archives: djgpp/2017/04/11/22:15:05
Hi,
On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 3:46:15 PM UTC-5, Jim Michaels wrote:
> On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 9:36:28 AM UTC-8, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT spam DOT sux) [via djgpp-announce AT hates DOT spam] wrote:
> >
> > This is a port of FSU Pthreads 3.14 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
> >
> > There may by some more information following the links offered at:
> > http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/pthreads/
>
> I did an nslookup of ftp.cs.fsu.edu domain and discovered it doesn't
> exist anymore, but the email does.
Florida State University still exists (apparently):
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/
The far-above (old) link says this:
"funded by: U.S. Army AJPO, awarded to Ted Baker, Florida State University"
The announce refers to "PART (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project)" and says,
"Copyright (C) 1992-2000 ... FSU ... LGPL".
AFAIK, long ago, there was a slimmed Ada/DJGPP install ("EZ...something")
that was probably intended to use this. I never learned Ada, so I only
looked at it once or twice.
Okay, a quick search rings some bells. Michael Feldman, George
Washington University (GWU), "ez2load", etc.
http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~reiter/3120/free.ada
This is circa 1996 and says, "GNAT version 3.04 for MS-DOS is now
included. This is a _full_ Ada 95 compiler and binder and now supports
tasking. Version 3.04 depends on djgpp version 2 ...."
IIRC, it was using GCC 2.8.1 and possibly mirrored on Simtel.net. But
I don't remember tasking working (and AFAIK doesn't work at all
in any semi-recent DJGPP Ada builds).
Once again, this is not "true" tasking, so DOS is still DOS. (Novell
DOS 7 had some threading/multitasking functionality in its EMM386 [sic],
but no third-party devs ever cared. And that's too old/proprietary for
us anyways.)
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