From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-26T00:25:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby for DOS

Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote:

> YM> |btw, can ruby be compiled for 8086? or it is just too fat for 640K
> YM> |barrier?

> YM> Ruby requires 'sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*)' which might be too
> YM> restrictive for plain 8086.

> this is true for large model. as i see, you never try to wrote
> programs for 16-bit ms-dos :)

Hi,

The first time I understood the underlying Ruby object model, I also
thought that it would not be straightforward to port Ruby to some embedded
systems (with 8-bit or 16-bit processors).  It appears that Ruby is really
optimized for "typical" (or even larger) computers.  Probably it will be
just a matter of time before someone writes R2ME (Ruby 2 Micro 
Edition)?  :)

Regards,

Bill