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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2002 17:24:57 +0100
From:	Chris Simmonds <chris AT 2net DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: is dos development dead?
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Jim,

So far as I know, only Datalight (www.datalight.com) is still actively 
marketing, and perhaps developing, DOS as an operating system. The only 
people still buying DOS and using it as a critical part of their 
businesses are the embedded and hand-held manufacturers. For example, 
most single board computers are shipped with a copy of DOS pre-installed 
so that people can boot. There are still some folks, myself included, 
writing programs for the embedded DOS market. A lot of people, again 
including myself, are using Linux now where DOS would have been three or 
four years ago. So, no DOS is not dead, just rather sleepy.

Chris.

Jim Stevenson wrote:

>Is anyone doing anything to develop dos any more?
>
>If so, what?
>
>If you must quote me, please put your comments first.
>I have already listened to mine.
>
>I read email with speech.
>So it is not possible to scroll past the quotes without listening to them again,
>to quickly get to the new information.
>
>
>Thanks much again as always.
>

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