[GRLUG] Project

Mark Farver mfarver at mindbent.org
Fri May 30 17:58:30 EDT 2014


Why not build a DOS 6 machine using OpenDOS... then you can use the
same environment?

You may even be able to run the DOS machine in a VM.  I think some of
the VM host environments allow emulated serial port access.

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:55 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to port a straight C program to Linux? There apears
> to be a book in 1995, ..
>
> Main issues would be:
>
>  * UI - the old system has an ANSI graphic UI
>  * MT - it used ctask for multi-tasking
>  * SER - it used two or three serial ports
>
> The main reason is that it is almost possible to create a MSC-6
> environment to compile now, and I just realized that my machine from 20
> years ago I have been keeping on the shelf for this eventuality is dead.
>
>         TIA!
>
>         Lee
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