XPost: alt.folklore.computers, openwatcom.users.c_cpp   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 00:26:40 -0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku   
   <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-11-03, Peter Flass  wrote:   
   >> On 11/3/25 13:24, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >When I saw this subject line, I thought it was some necroposting to   
   >threads from 1990.   
   >   
   >Someone still cared about segmented x86 shit in 2010 (even if 32 bit)?   
   >   
   >Amazing ...   
      
   I'm not sure about today, but that late there were still people   
   programming on older hardware for various specialized purposes. Or   
   rather, I suppose, maintaining the code. (I would say "devices" but   
   that now implies "something that runs Apps" and these were much much   
   older).   
      
   One of the advantages of Watcom (and so OpenWatcom) has always been   
   support for 16-bit programming. Of course, whether that is true today   
   is hard to say.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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