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Post by ourcat » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 8:41 AM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #39

snarfy wrote: post #28

Back when all you had was minicom dialing a BBS, there was a chicken and egg problem where you needed uudecode to decode any executable you downloaded. If you did not have uudecode you were stuck. If you are unfamiliar, unencoding a file allows you to send binary data through text transmission. Then a clever version of a DOS .COM file was posted which implemented uudecode, but it only used x86 instructions that were…

I remember that. Then in the early 90's it was .sit and .hqx on a Mac.

Post by kokooo » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 8:47 AM UTC

Post by trasz » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 8:55 AM UTC

ChrisSD wrote: post #35

notaplumber wrote: post #24

> I believe the best chance we have of doing that, is by gluing together the binary interfaces that've already achieved a decades-long consensus, and ignoring the APIs. Yeah, this isn't going to fly for OpenBSD, which doesn't have ABI stability, programs are expected to use libc. Program for the API, not the ABI. The author is clever, but misguided.

I believe the claim is that there exists a stable subset: > Bell System Five is the umbrella term we use to describe Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X which all have nearly-identical application binary interfaces that stood the test of time, having definitions nearly the same as those of AT&T back in the 1980's. However, only Linux guarantees stability at this level so I too am very sceptical that this will "stan…

Post by yreg » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 8:57 AM UTC

boudin wrote: post #89

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

It's not great for accessibility neither.

Post by SyneRyder » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:01 AM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #101

ChrisSD wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> C compiler is installed It's a great idea but that part is a big ask for any Windows user who doesn't develop desktop applications.

On Windows, though, there's C# compiler out of the box on every OS since Vista. And C# has a bunch of rarely-used syntax for things like raw pointers, that can work on more or less the same level as C, and even look pretty similar. It might be possible to do something with that.