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From: groot@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (H. de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Oberon-M Q's and A's
Message-ID: <1246@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 28 Mar 91 10:52:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.173834.17328@tandem.com>
Reply-To: groot@idca.tds.philips.nl (Henk de Groot)
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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Disclamer: This opinion is mine alone

In <1991Mar22.173834.17328@tandem.com> erv@everest.TANDEM.COM (E. Videki) writes:
>This is about the Oberon-M(tm) package for the MSDOS
>environment.  Here are answers to questions that I've
>been repeatedly asked:
>[...]
>Q: What are the specific, technical things the compiler
>   does not do?
>A: Here are the things that the compiler does NOT do now,
>   [...]
>	2) 8088 and 8086 (ie: the oldest processors) do 
>	   not have Enter and Leave instructions which are
>	   generated by the compiler.  Thus, only PCs
>	   with 80x86 (where x >= 1) processors can
>	   use the produced code.  The compiler itself will
>	   run on an older machine, though.
>    [...]

The compiler looks nice but...

Are you going to change the compiler to generate code for 8086/8088 processors
in the future? I like to know about Oberon and try it but since I only have
an XT 8088 based system I can only use the copliler to check the syntax. I'm
posting because others might also want this and now they know they are not
the only one with 8088 based systems.

I'm not critizising (sp?) your compiler, just a humble request.

Henk.















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