Re: Impressed

On Apr 9, 1:07 pm, Rob Kendrick <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:52:51 -0700 (PDT)
Paolo Fabio Zaino <p.za...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No Rob, you can NOT execute 16bits drivers and 32bits drivers at the
same time, go to read "Windows Internals".
Please Rob, stop talking about Oses you don't know at all, you are
confusing people who read your words.

Note "/could/", past tense, and I mentioned nothing about "at the same
time".  You did.

Yes I did, because this was the problem with Win95 stability at the
time and not the execution of Windows 3.x applications in Windows 95,
so Jake was correct in his post.


If you buy a PC now you'll not find any 16bits drivers in your win
installation.

You will.  Try looking in the boot loader :)  But *you* were the one
who mentioned Windows 95, and it is the topic of discussion here for
possible routes for RISC OS.

Rob the bootloader is not part of the OS (you can load Windows using
GRUB instead of MS bootloader), does not configure deivices, just run
the OS, in the PC world it is a must because of the original IBM PC
architecture (and BIOS).

Grub can launch the NT loader, certainly.  But that's different.

Please stop trying desperately do say something which is wrong and not
in context with my post.
Win95 had a "compatibility mode" to execute 16bits drivers for ISA
cards, which were causing problems. That's it, stop. Win 3.x
applications where executed in a controlled environment which were
working good most of the times.
Now, please, stop adding content which has nothing to do with the
original Jake post and my answer to his post, Thanks.

"Frameworks", however, is a pretty meaningless word.

Yeah, all is meaningless for you when you want to argue, but you
have no words :)

And yet you've not described anything about them, past using their
name.

Rob, I didn't need to describe anything about "them", as if you need
to know deails about the most famous Frameworks (and they are hundreds
and hundreds now) it would require a biblic post!

I'm not asking for a list.  You're saying RISC OS doesn't have a good
selection of "frameworks", and yet you've entirely failed to describe
what they are.

Failed? why? Is your goal just to say to others the word "failed",
sounds a bit like the show "The Apprentice" ;) your version of it is
"You Faild!" instead of Sir. Alan S. famous phrase "You Fired!" :)

We have SDL for multimedia and the old Mesa (apparently out dated) so,
do we want to talk about video gaming?

These are more traditionally called "libraries".

So, it doesn't support RISC OS.  Because nobody's ported it yet.
 Just because a CPU supports a certain instruction set does not
sudden make it "support RISC OS".
Rob the PlugPC is basically just a CPU, with RAM, Flah, USB and a
network card... :)

There is no need to start every sentence with my name.  And this
statement shows a stunning amount of ignorance of how hardware actually
works, especially in the embedded world.  It's not just those, it's a
PCB, bus and pin usage, boot environment, etc etc etc.  It's not that
simple.

B.

Thank you for your help with my English Rob. :) (and sorry to
everybody for my mistakes)
No it doesn't shows any "stunning" amount of ignorance, the amount of
code to make RISC OS work on a PlugPC is much less than a Pandora
port, simple as that.
Now, do you want to talk about hardware details of PlugPC? Fine let's
post a specific topic about it, no problem. :)

-Paolo

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