Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 07/31/09 15:27, Darren New wrote:
>> Only if you want to take advantage of it. Find an old copy of MS-DOS,
>> boot it, and suddenly programming will be easy again.
> 
>     Are you kidding?
> 
>     I'd love to see what happens if I boot MS-DOS on my P4 2.53 GHz. How 
> will it handle my video card? RAM? I suppose that 640K thing is there, 
> but what if I want to use stuff like smartdrv and access higher memory?
> 
>     Heck, the "complicated" programming of today may be easier than 
> booting to DOS.
> 
>     (And yes, DOSBox is cheating).
> 

I suspect that he's kidding, but I've often though about it. Hmm... I 
may have an old copy
of DOS, if I can find it, and a computer that I wouldn't be afraid to 
try it on. I suspect it won't
boot but it may be worth a try. Finding the disk will be a long term 
project, I'll report results, if any,
eventually. But one couldn't use the high resolution graphics -- or 
could one??

Of course one can do a certain amount of "system" programming even on XP 
and
and it is much easier--and faster. Maybe I should take another look at 
that assembly programming
site I ran across a while back.;)

David :)

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