[omniORB] omniORB2 and MS-DOS

[Steven W. Brenneis]

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 19 May, Jose Bellmunt wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   If it isn't posible, somebody knows where I could find a CORBA
> > distribution for C/C++ that run under plataforms MS-DOS 6.2 PC (Pentium
> > 200MZ).
> 
> I'd be very surprised if you manage to run omniORB on MS-DOS. It would
> require an enormous amount of work re-implementing things like threads
> and so on. You might have more luck with ORBit, which is implemented
> in C, and single-threaded. See:
> 
>   http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
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I'll second Duncan's sentiment.  Even if you could implement some kind
of threading for the application, the operating system is not
thread-safe and there are no multi-threaded (or even dependable
single-threaded) TCP/IP stacks for DOS.