X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "bob klahn" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Most Recent Copy of D Message-ID: Date: Thursday, 12 Feb 2009 02:03:00 -0600 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) X-Fido-From: bob klahn, 1:124/311 X-Fido-To: PAUL BARTLETT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16] X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443737.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [9] at 12:24:40 on 02 Jan 2010 X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2] X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination X-Declude-Code: 8010000e X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Originally to: PAUL BARTLETT ... >> Datalight's ROM-DOS is still available and supported. It offers >> Fat32, LFN, and Emm386, though it does not have a memory "tweaker" >> like memmaker. A DOS internet connectivity suite is also available. >> ROM-DOS is a true DOS and does not offer multi-tasking. DOS extended >> applications can be run on top of ROM-DOS to break the 640K memory >> limitation. You can get more information at www.datalight.com. PB> Just for information, I work part time (mostly retired) for PB> the largest retail bookstore chain in the USA. We depend PB> heavily on handheld portable data terminals which can, PB> among other useful tasks, read barcodes on books and PB> communicate with a central server. When you reboot the PB> terminals, you see that they are running ROM-DOS. In that PB> application, single-tasking is completely adequate. DOS is PB> far from dead. We have similar terminals where I work. Last time I looked they booted to DrDos. We have new ones now, I'll try to see what they boot up to. We also have touch screen displays at many machines, that give readouts of the functions of the machine, and many have the controls for the machines. They boot up to MS Dos 6.22. BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn ... Klahn Spaceport. You'll never find a more wretched hive of villainy * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]