Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!not-for-mail From: Flemming Gram Christensen Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Beta for DOS? Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:46:33 +0200 (MET DST) Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 41 Approved: mailtonews@daimi.aau.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <199809101146.NAA04859@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: Flemming Gram Christensen NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.daimi.aau.dk X-Trace: xinwen.daimi.aau.dk 905428014 5826 255.255.255.255 (10 Sep 1998 11:46:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@daimi.aau.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:46:54 GMT Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11690 On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Morten Grouleff wrote: > Hans Nowak writes: > ...... > > 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 > You can actually run text only beta programs on a linux box, with as little as 8Mb RAM. I've done it myself, it is ok. /gram > Regards, > -- > ** Morten Grouleff: ** > ** Earthworm Jim PC: ** > ** Mjølner Informatics: ** > -- /Flemming Gram Christensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mjolner Informatics ApS Phone: +45 86 20 20 00 Science Park Aarhus Fax: +45 86 20 12 22 Gustav Wieds Vej 10 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark E-mail: gram@mjolner.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------