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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS?

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
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"Thomas Lake" <tomlake07@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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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