X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: VIRTUAL BOX and my GAME - Mr Rod Pemberton Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:45:25 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <125997 DOT 8962 DOT qm AT web45113 DOT mail DOT sp1 DOT yahoo DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sg0uvLzlDfZOqmCSVnJXCA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse AT aioe DOT org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.2001 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.2001 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Bytes: 3360 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "DJ Delorie" wrote in message news:xnfwrzpw1i DOT fsf AT delorie DOT com... > "Rod Pemberton" writes: > > > If so, it's likely the DJGPP email to Usenet gateway rejected. > > It did. No foul language here, please, we have minors using DJGPP. > I'd respect that position, if I thought it were true. However, this is Usenet. It's not for children. It never has been. Think of all the binary alt.* groups. It wasn't 25 years ago. It still isn't today. I'm not aware of ever seeing a post from a child. The volume here is virtually non-existant. I'm surprised comp.os.msdos.djgpp didn't get itself on the recent Big-8 deletion list. If Andris Pavenis and Juan Manuel Guerrero hadn't been posting "ANNOUNCE" messages, I think this group might've failed the Big-8 stage 1 requirements. This group is not a DJGPP forum, or Listserv that you control DJ. You could've made this group moderated, if you so wished. You didn't. That's your failure. You still can, but AISI there is no point anymore. DJGPP's time has past. Well, there might be one point to moderation: Big-8 doesn't delete moderated groups. Or, two: you can block any words you don't like, for any language. DJGPP is not being used to code DOS, e.g., FreeDOS or DR-DOS. It was being used to code FreeDOS-32, but that's been stalled for 6 years now. AFAIK, it's not being used to code new OSes, or any major applications. DJGPP hasn't progressed in the 6 or 7 years that I've been reading here. The handful of serious users of DJGPP stopped posting 3 to 4 years ago. I'd guess that most moved on. For all practical purposes, DJGPP is dead. It's frozen in time. It tried to move to XP, sort of... It hasn't, yet... That's still in Beta. 7 years of Beta... No demand? It has yet to find another OS to give it purpose, or something to give it life, like a DOS shell for Windows 7. I've repeatedly suggested two things that could breathe some life into DJGPP: GNU GLIBC, and recompiled v2.03 with 64-bit support enabled. GLIBC would allow GNU tools on DOS to just work. 64-bit would allow current users to migrate from 32-bit. They'll have to do so at some point. I.e., you'll lose them. So, the void is/was being filled by other compilers: Cygwin, Pelles C, LCC-Win32, LLVM, MinGW, etc. All the recent x86 OS developers seem to be using Linux w/GNU GCC, or MASM. Rod Pemberton