Organization: DTC Internet - Wichita, KS - 316-683-1300 X-Real-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.184.63.136 X-NNTP-Relay: John's NNTP Relay v1.0 - john AT dtc DOT net X-Send-Complaints-To: abuse AT dtc DOT net Message-ID: <371D464C.64BCE76D@carrollsweb.com> From: JDR X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: About DJGPP future References: <371A6934 DOT 9316A109 AT teleline DOT es> <371c358b DOT 0 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 63 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:30:20 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.242.217.20 X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 924665403 206.242.217.20 (Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:30:03 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:30:03 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Howdy ... 1st post .. so sorry if no one said this ... =-] Manni Heumann wrote: > 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. > > 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. Just wanted to add this to why there is a need for DOS (and thus DJGPP) ... Here are a few reasons for developing DOS software: 1. 10% of all personal computers only run DOS. 2. DOS has also found a popular home in the embedded OS market. 3. Projects like FreeDOS will inevitable lead to a resurgence of DOS in computing 4. It is an alternative to Windows that is less complex than Linux. [snip] 6. To keep DOS alive for future generations to love and cherish :) Sincerely, J. D. Redding __ __ __ __ .-|__||__|-----------------------------------|__||__|-. | |=-||-=| |=-||-=| | | \/ \/ \/ \/ | | | | Opinions expressed are my own; everyone else, | | including employers, has to pay for them, | | subject to applicable licensing agreement. | | This message, including the header, is Copyright | | ©1999 J. D. Redding. All rights reserved. Use | | or dissemination on any distribution list of any | | e-mail address that appears above is prohibited | | without specific prior written permission. | \_____________________________________________________/