Message-ID: From: George Kinney To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:10:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >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) >