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from: Paul Bartlett
date: 2009-02-09 20:24:08
subject: Re: Most Recent Copy of DRDOS

From: Paul Bartlett 

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jamie Ferrier wrote:

> 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.
>
>>> [trim]

Just for information, I work part time (mostly retired) for the largest
retail bookstore chain in the USA.  We depend heavily on handheld
portable data terminals which can, among other useful tasks, read
barcodes on books and communicate with a central server.  When you
reboot the terminals, you see that they are running ROM-DOS.  In that
application, single-tasking is completely adequate.  DOS is far from
dead.

-- 
Paul Bartlett


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