Julio Merino (@jmmv@mastodon.online) - Mastodon
236 Posts, 226 Following, 533 Followers · Operating systems, build systems, and programming languages. Mostly Unix, Bazel, and Rust. Author of a tech blog, EndBASIC, and more.| Mastodon
The Global Descriptor Table (GDT) is a binary data structure specific to the IA-32 and x86-64 architectures. It contains entries telling the CPU about memory segments. A similar Interrupt Descriptor Table exists containing task and interrupt descriptors.| wiki.osdev.org
I grew up learning to program in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Back then, I did not fully comprehend what I was doing and why the tools I used were impressive given the constraints of the hardware we had. Having gained more knowledge throughout the years, it is now really fun to pick up DOSBox to re-experience those programs and compare them with our current state of affairs. This time around, I want to look at the pure text-based IDEs that we had in that era before Windows eclipsed the PC in...| Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for| www.delorie.com
236 Posts, 226 Following, 533 Followers · Operating systems, build systems, and programming languages. Mostly Unix, Bazel, and Rust. Author of a tech blog, EndBASIC, and more.| Mastodon
