tenaglia@mis.mcw.edu ("Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765") (09/27/90)
As a matter of fact I do my serious Icon development on a VAX. I do have it on a pc or 2 as a filtering tool. I prefer Icon 5.9 which uses less memory, and also DOS 3.1 or 3.3. While Icon 5.9 is missing some of the latest goodies, it's just fine as long as I don't need interupts or getch. I've even written a kind of unix shell environment in it. It has a form of about 50 unixlike commands, translates \ to / for the paths, has a login program written in compiled basic, and some other things. Mostly it reads unix commands and reformats them to DOS with system(). It won't work with recent versions of icon because of memory limits, but 5.9 does fit. Granted, it's not 'real', but it was a fun little project. Any ideas about having the DOS version do swapping to reclaim memory, maybe as an option with garbage collection. Also make iconx smarter so one icon program could run another without reloading iconx.exe into memory. Oh well, pardon my frothing. I guess I just have a big imagination Chris Tenaglia (System Manager) Medical College of Wisconsin 8701 W. Watertown Plank Rd. Milwaukee, WI 53226 (414)257-8765 tenaglia@mis.mcw.edu, mcwmis!tenaglia