Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!Morten.Grouleff From: Morten Grouleff Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Beta for DOS? Date: 10 Sep 1998 13:02:26 +0200 Organization: This posting is not sponsored by any organization. Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <35F77F5F.30FA948D@hvision.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: heimdal.mjolner.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: xinwen.daimi.aau.dk 905425349 4021 255.255.255.255 (10 Sep 1998 11:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@daimi.aau.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:02:29 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11689 Hans Nowak writes: > Beta looks like a cool language, but I only seem to be able to get a > very large Windows version which needs lots of memory happily. So I > wonder, is there a simple no-frills version for (32-bits) DOS around, > somewhere? (Is this possible anyway or are there reasons why Beta cannot > be ported to DOS?) There is no DOS version. It would take a lot of work to do, as DOS lacks support for windowed graphics, long filenames, and lots of other details that we would have to implement ourselves. I think the DOS version would get larger than the windows version, as we would have to implement all the stuff windows does for us now. Memory is not that expensive anymore. With 32 MB memory, it runs quite well. With 64 MB the performance increase is mainly due to caching of files, which of course helps the compiler Regards, -- ** Morten Grouleff: ** ** Earthworm Jim PC: ** ** Mjølner Informatics: **