Re: New DOS-Interpretable formats...
On 31 Jul 2000, at 1:49, PQ wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: New DOS-Interpretable formats...
>
>
> > <klaxon horn> Inexperience alert !
> >
> > Don't restrict programmers if you don't *need* to, look at what we haveto
> live with from
<snip>
> Hmm, good point...
> I should have a lot of comment on this, but after a little research I found
> that Euphoria can
> handle A LOT so I will thank you for this attack.
No attack intended. Experience prompting intended. 
> 32Bits Enough?
I expect so!
> But don't cheer yet, I really got some comment on your next questions...
>
> > > What RWL2 does?
> > >
> > > As you can see in the ASM sources there are some things to process
> > > by the compiler, there are Procedure names and Argument names.
> > > So what the compiler does is:
> > > - Procedure names (Max. 8Bytes)
> >
> > <confused mode> Errrrrr..... 8 BYTES now? i thought it was 8 BITS ?
>
> You could be confused if you mistake RWL2 for MTCL.
> The RWL2 project, which started earlier, is a DLL-Kind-of-file.
> I gave the procnames a limit of 8Bytes just sort-of random, I could have
> used
> a 0-terminated string, but I didn't think of that at that time.
> Dll-files contain in their binary-state the proc&func names, an executive
> file does not.(Except for EU-exec files)
>
> > Have you been able to lock the called procedures so any form of
> multitasking doesn't
> > grab the cpu and re-enter the procedure? Or inadvertently share the vars?
> Since your
> > proposed code could be used to enable multithreading with shared libs,
> have you
> > decided on implementing the task swapping in Eu too? <intrigued now> That
> would be
> > great, imo.
>
> You're getting more and more complicated, aren't you...
I get carried away sometimes...
<snip>
> > <daydreaming mode> Making windoze socks work in dos5.x+/7.x+, being able
> to
> > dynamically control thread priority, their interrupts, and all the other
> vars of the task
> > swapper, and have the source code for it in Eu.... <glazed look in eyes>
> Rewrite Dos with your own knowledge and you will get there, I'm not
> kidding...
> You can do anything if you have the strength to write it and do a lot of
> research on it.
And time. I thought i'd look at linux, they say it works, and Eu runs on it..
Kat
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