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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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