Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/07/00:09:27
Endlisnis wrote:
>
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > RUMOR that may have quite a bit of fact to it:
> >
> > Windows Millennium is Micr0$oft's last 9x kernel based Windows version. I
> > have heard rumors that Micr0$oft will be switching to an NT kernel with its
> > inferior DOS box. So how will DOS tools such as DJGPP, Allegro, etc.
> > continue to survive?
>
> Well, DJGPP does work on NT. It doesn't have LFN support, and it can't use
> SVGA graphics modes. And I find it very annoying how slow the screen-updates
> are on an NT machine running something like RHIDE. (it's no fault of the
> program, it's NT waiting too long).
>
> Either way, the 64-bit intel chips will go mass-market in late 2000/early
> 2001. And many other companies will follow suite, so I expect a 64-bit version
> of GCC will be born.
"Be born"? Seen an Alpha lately? Guess what compiler it uses?
Incidentally, I have heard that various people working under temporary
NDA's are already porting GCC to the Merced, so when the Merced comes
out, GCC may already work on it.
> Word from Microsoft is that they will not be able to get
> a 64-bit version of Windows out until ~2003, and it will be a complete re-write
> (because of the large penalty for executing 32-bit code on the Merced
> processor).
"Complete rewrite" sounds unlikely to me. There is already NT for the
Alpha, and I doubt it was a complete rewrite.
The 32-bit code can be got rid of just by recompiling, and I doubt the
architecture differences require *that* much work. But I suppose it's
possible that Microsoft's code is so screwed up that it really is
necessary...
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Nate Eldredge
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