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   mutazilah@gmail.com to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: windows   
   18 Nov 22 15:18:46   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 10:53:53 PM UTC+8, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > >Would it theoretically be easier to run PM16 programs   
   > >(instead of RM16) in 64-bit Windows if they had been   
   > >written "nicely"?   
      
   > It would be easiest to convert PM16 programs to 64-bit.   
   >   
   > PM16 is dead, Jim.   
      
   People are still doing 8-bit programming.   
      
   And I just realized that those people are doing 8:8 segmentation.   
      
   I don't know if anyone is doing 16:16 programming.   
      
   But they are presumably at least doing 16-bit flat.   
      
   I like the idea of supporting and testing 16-bit toolchains   
   and applications on a PC. Even if you end up cross-compiling   
   for the target machine.   
      
   Yes, you can use an emulator instead.   
      
   And yes, you can go to the beach instead.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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