From: Michael Castle <mcastle AT umr DOT edu>
Subject: GNU Smalltalk
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 00:26:38 -0600 (CST)

I've been following discussion on gnu.smalltalk.bug and replying as best as
I can concerning some questions that have arisen concering the DOS port
that was done with DJGPP.

This has proven most interesting considering I've never done anything with
Smalltalk at all, and I've not used DJGPP since v1.09 (I switched to OS/2
around that time, and currently don't have the storage space for ANY
development system).  

I have some things I wish to ask and verify so that I don't give out
misinformation.

1) I believe ST was ported using v1.09 of djgpp.  Will this a.out format
still work with go32 v1.11?  Namely, many questions have come up concerning
DPMI support.  Is there any problems with this? (No graphics are being
used, so that's a non-issue.)

2) What is the current status of 387 emulators?  Which is the recommened
emulator?  Is the wmemu387 still faster and more accurate than the original
emulator?  Is this even still and issue?

3) How much benefit would ST achieve is recompiled with a newer version of
djgpp?  Would anyone be interested in doing this?  I've not yet contacted
the person who did the original port to see if they are still active in the
djgpp community.  I would do it, but as I've stated:  I'm short on free
space to do development.  The source appears to be about 19xxx lines of
code in 34 *.c and *.h files.  Looks much easier than my port of PBMPlus.
;->

4) I continually list omnigate as the official source for djgpp, but give
pointers to oak.oakland.edu as a faster mirror.  This this still valid?

Hurm... all I can think of right now.... I just want to make sure I give
out correct information, so I decided I had better check and make sure.

regards,
mrc
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