Re: SDK & OpenDOS

Edward Di Geronimo Jr. (edwdig@bergen.org)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:50:42 -0500

>You'll want no less than 32MB RAM and enough disk space for a 50MB swap file
>(not that it ever gets that big). It also helps to have a Pentium 120 or
>better. Fast graphics card is nice, too, although NT's graphics are pretty
>well optimized (for speed).

All that to develop for an OS that needs a tenth of those requirements? No
thank you.

>You can't run the emulators under NT. Running the SDKs under NT is alright
>except for the random death of pmake. Because pmake uses a questionable DOS
>utility to create virtual machines to run the various compilation tools it
>gives NT a headache.

It works but it randomly crashes. Why is that any different than under any
other environment? Windows seems to be the only OS it crashes under. I
haven't heard a bad report about it under OS/2, and it works fine here when
I use it under Linux & DOSEmu.

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