From:	solderer AT my-dejanews DOT com
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Subject:	Re: About DJGPP future
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:28:14 GMT
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In article <371c358b DOT 0 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de>,
  manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann) wrote:

> 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.

I although agree, a friend and me like to use DJGPP and dos for the same
reason. We use it for mesurment things so as CCD-camera and it gives the
chance to use "everithing" on the PC the way you like !


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