OpenEuphoria

Re: Leave DOS?!

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 21, 2006
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akusaya wrote:
> I wonder why RDS still plan to support DOS in the future.
> Do we really need DOS support?
> 
> Why not just allocate more time to think about new features or new
> language construct? Or porting to Mac OSX which should not be so
> difficult since it mostly resembles linux in the API.
> 
> Windows still provides DOS emulation because they have LOT of people
> to work on it. But a single manned company making Eu will waste a lot
> of time to develop for DOS.
> 
> Is there any reason why RDS still wants to support DOS?
> 
> Is it because of easy graphics routines for newbies?

It doesn't cost that much to continue to support DOS.
For example, all of the multitasking code that I've
developed in the past few months is generic, i.e. it's the
same code on all platforms.

In the past couple of days, I've done some DOS-specific testing
while evaluating Open Watcom, but it has been a while since
I developed a significant new feature just for DOS.

People who are new to Euphoria, or new to programming, will probably
find it easier to develop a small program in DOS, rather than Windows.

A lot of what you can do with ex, can also be done
using exwc, but what about Language War? 
Actually, someone should really develop a Windows library
to emulate Euphoria's DOS graphics.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com