From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 10:17:17 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > Is there some sort of cartel in operation here? z/Arch   
   > > is already out of patent   
      
   > I dont know what gave you that idea, but there are new patents granted on   
   z/arch every year.   
      
   I'm only interested in the first version of z/Arch, for the   
   same reason I'm only interested in the 80386, not the   
   80486 etc. And the next thing in the x64 range that I   
   am interested in is the subset of AMD's first x64 that   
   works on Intel's first x64.   
      
   I code to the lowest common denominator wherever   
   possible.   
      
   Hell, I even created the lowest common denominator   
   of Win32 - PDOS/386. There are only 10 or something   
   functions implemented, with minimal functionality   
   even within that. Just good enough to write a C library,   
   which is enough to implement a toolchain. Not an   
   editor though. I had to cheat (0xb8000) to get that to   
   work. And even the non-cheat (ANSI escape sequences,   
   still in proof of concept, worse than PDOS/3X0) will only   
   work on Win10 and above.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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