Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:53:21 -0700
On Sunday, 23 July 2023 10:15:27 PDT Nate Eldredge via Std-Discussion wrote:
> I suppose that standardization in the late 1990s could have been a time to
> make that break with the past, but even then, an awful lot of the software
> world was still 16-bit x86.
I was still programming for DOS with the Microsoft C/C++ compiler back in
1996. Though I'll admit was becoming very rare, because of the limitation to
the old, real-mode address space (not the segmentation itself).
> I suppose that standardization in the late 1990s could have been a time to
> make that break with the past, but even then, an awful lot of the software
> world was still 16-bit x86.
I was still programming for DOS with the Microsoft C/C++ compiler back in
1996. Though I'll admit was becoming very rare, because of the limitation to
the old, real-mode address space (not the segmentation itself).
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
Received on 2023-07-24 04:53:24