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| From | "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? |
| Date | 2016-05-27 10:59 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ni95im$68e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n9n71i$j1f$1@dont-email.me> <b95f5244-a26d-45f6-839b-9711feb48175@googlegroups.com> |
"Thomas Lake" <tomlake07@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b95f5244-a26d-45f6-839b-9711feb48175@googlegroups.com... > On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 7:22:58 AM UTC-5, gareth wrote: >> What fun we could have should a nice, simple, easy 64-bit version >> of MS-DOS be around; the only thing to my mind that would >> be lacking would be a graphical Web interface. >> >> Imagine; a single linear address space, no software bloat >> (Even Linux is popping its trouser buttons), and only a few kBytes >> consumed by the OS! >> >> The downside would be that assuming that one could write one >> assembler instruction per minute in a 40-hour working week >> and a 46-week working year, allowing approximately 4 bytes >> for each instruction, then it would take you about 9,000 man-years >> to write enough code for a progran to completely fill 4GB of RAM! >> >> (YMMV !!!! ) > > Check out TempleOS. It's a 64-bit linear address OS. It's not compatible > with anything but it does have a C compiler so you can port software to > it. Thanks! I'll have a browse.
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Thomas Lake <tomlake07@gmail.com> - 2016-05-26 12:49 -0700
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-27 10:59 +0100
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-27 11:47 -0700
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-27 23:27 +0100
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-27 22:34 +0000
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-27 19:07 -0400
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-28 00:05 +0000
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-04 22:12 -0500
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-28 15:18 -0400
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