Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject:	Re: About DJGPP future
References:	<371A6934 DOT 9316A109 AT teleline DOT es>
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In article <371A6934 DOT 9316A109 AT teleline DOT es>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>I'm thinking about the DJGPP future. My last post was a wish list like a
>programmer, but to think about the future is different.
>
>Why we need DJGPP? To write DOS programs and port lots of Unix programs.
>
>Why people need DOS?
>To answer this question is more dificult, but probably there are two
>reasons:
>    - To run the big number of DOS programs there are.
>    - To use the command line. I think the command line is a great
>thing. Using command line programs people can automate his work.

<SNIP>

Agreed. And I've got another reason. There are some things, that OSes like 
Linux or Windows won't let you do, at least not the easy way: Measuring 
accurate times to the millisecond, accessing the parallel and serial ports, 
adding special hardware that has it's own ports...
These are thing that people (like me) need in their laboratories. And they 
need them to be easily programmable. DJPGG will let you do all this and more 
and the other DOS compilers are nearly extinct.



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