Mail Archives: djgpp/2016/08/01/14:03:26
Hello,
MSDOS is probably the only system bugfree. I heard from my daughter they still use it in a client system of KPN (Dutch telephone company for more then a century).
I used it for process-control. It is a marvellous system, see www.roosnek.nl or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AqTj2DbAr8
It has a quite different application, you will be surprised when you hear it.
With regard, Nico
On 1-8-2016 17:42, rugxulo AT gmail DOT com [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 6:00:08 PM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> Of course, if almost no one is using DJGPP anymore or DOS anymore,
>> then what's the point?
> I don't think it's fruitful for me to try (yet again) to prove
> that DOS is still alive and kicking. I doubt AdaCore (or FSF/GNU
> or almost anybody) cares. They're blissfully ignorant. But ....
>
> For instance, Free Pascal now officially has an i8086-msdos target
> (as of 3.0.0 a few months ago). Even ReactOS now has a (partially
> working, but not for DJGPP) NTVDM. FreeDOS 1.2 is still in the works
> and will be released soon-ish (but no major infrastructural changes).
>
> Is it enough? Will it ever be enough? When will somebody care? Can
> anything awaken worldwide developer apathy? Doubt it. So, like always,
> we just have to make do with what we already have.
>
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