Message-ID: <3CF7A3D9.10302@2net.co.uk> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:24:57 +0100 From: Chris Simmonds User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: is dos development dead? References: <200205311433 DOT g4VEXUwi008125 AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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. > -- Chris Simmonds 2net Limited chris AT 2net DOT co DOT uk http://www.2net.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1962 869003 Fax: +44 (0)870 056 7556 "If it's not connected, it's not effective"(tm)