Marko
Iused to read C magazines and as I remember [ fuzzy ] early C programs
were merged with some machine language routines that were machine
specific. Can't offer any more except you could check old things like
C-chest and others.
Regards
James Hanson
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 16:47:17 +0200 Marko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?=
<marko.makela@hut.fi> writes:
> I ran across to a small 8086/80386 C compiler called bcc, where the B
>
> stands for Bruce Evans and not Borland. The compiler is freely
> available in source code form under the GNU General Public License,
> which makes it an excellent choice for open source projects.
>
> I created a cbmlink.com file from my development sources with this
> compiler. The command line options seem to work, but I couldn't get
>
> transfers going when I made a quick test.
>
> Using RS-232 at 38400 bps on MS-DOS requires at least some direct
> hardware access, as the BIOS INT 14h doesn't go beyond 9600 bps. I
> found excellent sample code at the same site where I found a version
> of
> bcc that is accompanied with a primitive C library for MS-DOS:
> <URL:http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/>. The file talk.zip contains a
> fast
> terminal program with source code. If someone is interested in
> making a
> decent MS-DOS port of cbmlink, this site is a good starting point.
>
> Please contact me if you're interested in finishing this port. I'm
> not
> that interested myself, as I don't have any 8086-class hardware, but
>
> some of you might still have old 8086 or 80286 boxes lying around,
> waiting to be networked with Commodore computers.
>
> Marko
>
>
>
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