Project Spud

[Olly Betts]

[Sorry about the last message - had an attack of the fumble fingers]

In message <200008200340.XAA03145@apocalypse.org>, "andrew m. boardman" writes
>Me, for one.  (My old 80286 laptop/boat-anchor is nigh indestructible; I
>wish I could say that for the '486 machine I had briefly been using...)
>But perhaps more importantly, I often prefer to deal only with a CLI, and
>would be very sad if that capability ever disappeared entirely.  (Not,
>granted, that this is in the current plans...)

Yeah, we're likely to keep a CLI interface - a lot of tasks are easier with
one (and to be fair, many aren't).

Support for 286s may be tricky.  Currently we use Borland C/C++ 3.1 (which
Wookey bought at least 7 years ago).  This doesn't even come close to
supporting ISO C++ (since this came out rather more recently), so isn't
likely to be usable.

Borland/Inprise have now released a more recent version at no cost, so
provided that supports DOS and will generate code for a 286, we're OK.  The
website says "32-bit ANSI C++ optimizing compiler for Windows", which isn't
too promising, but they may include the DOS version without advertising it.

Otherwise, we either need someone with access to DOS ISO C++ compiler which
can produce code for a 286, or we use djgpp which requires at least a 386.

Cheers,
Olly