Re: E-Tesla6

["sundog" <sundog-at-xxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Not exactly TC related, but has to do with E-tesla6

Hi all,

 I'm afraid I have to differ here.  As a techie and machine-head
besides, I do this for a livin' ;)  The 486 is a 32 bit chip, and
should run the program no trouble, provided you're 1. Running it
under windows 3.1 in enhanced mode, win 95/98/2000, or running it
under Dos using DOS4GW extender.  Dos itself is just a 16-bit OS,
whereas windows is 32bit, as is a dos box started from windows
(it's running under windows 32 bit mode), but booting on a 95 boot
disk only puts you in 16 bit, so it shouldn't run if it's a 32bit
program.  Despite what MS would like you to think, unless you're
running NT or Unix, your Win95/98/whatever box still initially
boots in 16 bit mode.  with the source code, you *should* be able
to compile it for 16 bit execution (so it'll run under Dos).

   Hope it helps :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: E-Tesla6


>Original poster: "Dr. John Gudenas" <comsciprof-at-ameritech-dot-net>
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>The C Compiler likely produced 32 bit code and the old 80486
architecture is
>16 bit code. This is what typically
>happens in cases like this. (Inference from experience)
>John
>
>John W. Gudenas, Ph.D.
>Department Chair of Computational and Natural Science
>Aurora University
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>Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:34 PM
>Subject: Re: E-Tesla6
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>> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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>> Hi J.B.,
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>> I just tried it on my old 486/75 laptop with a DOS boot disk and
your
>> right!  I use LCC C compiler and I clicked all the right
compiler boxes
>> but...  It should run on any 32 bit windows PC version.  I don't
know why
>> it does not do pure DOS
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