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Hi,

On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 6:00:08 PM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>
> Of course, if almost no one is using DJGPP anymore or DOS anymore,
> then what's the point?

I don't think it's fruitful for me to try (yet again) to prove
that DOS is still alive and kicking. I doubt AdaCore (or FSF/GNU
or almost anybody) cares. They're blissfully ignorant. But ....

For instance, Free Pascal now officially has an i8086-msdos target
(as of 3.0.0 a few months ago). Even ReactOS now has a (partially
working, but not for DJGPP) NTVDM. FreeDOS 1.2 is still in the works
and will be released soon-ish (but no major infrastructural changes).

Is it enough? Will it ever be enough? When will somebody care? Can
anything awaken worldwide developer apathy? Doubt it. So, like always,
we just have to make do with what we already have.

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