Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/08/15:32:48
>SET Wrote:
[George Kinney] > Nate Eldredge wrote:
[George Kinney] > > Incidentally, how many people here use DJGPP at
work (authorized or
[George Kinney] > > unauthorized)?
[George Kinney] > Here you can count at least 3 users, we even use
DJGPP for an electro-medicine
[George Kinney] > equipment (it have a PC motherboard inside ;-)
Being this company's only programmer, I'm the only DJGPP user here
:) Although DOS may be aged, and I in fact use it on win9x anyways, it's
still much easier to use for my needs than doing it in RPG/400 on the AS/400
across the room.
(BTW people have been predicting the death of OS/400 for decades,
and it is another OS that's still in use worldwide, and likely to remain so
for the forseeable future.)
Everyone should remember that there are still places you can aquire
working Amigas, new shrinkwrapped ProDOS for your venerable Apple][ (before
you laugh, I've actually got one and still hack at it occassionally, ok, now
you can laugh :), and other things that the main stream has long forgotten.
I mean, they are still porting software to VAXen of all things. For that
matter, a client I worked with two years ago still to this day uses a PDP-11
for it's daily operations, and likes it.
Even if MS decides to nix all DOS support, or whatever, there are
plenty of people and businesses out there that depend on proprietary
software that need the older OS's. Reliability is also another major issue,
and few companies jump on the bandwagon with every new incremental release
of anything.
(I've noticed that in the year I've been away from this newsgroup
that there seem to be a *lot* more people using DJGPP than there were
before, not a sign of a dying project in my book)
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