Brian ..

 BP> And thusly Mike Luther spake:
> 
> Onstar!  Well yes, but whose car is parked next door 
> and when?  Onstar knows! 
> And that isn't Win whatever yet either or is it?  
> What op system does Onstar
> use?
> 
>    DOS, OS/2 or LINUX?
> 
> Giggle.

I don't know what Onstar uses!  But comments are, it ain't WIN.  That's
kinda why I posted this, grin.  The point is that virtually all of this
equipment is a way, is antique computer equipment in it's dedicated core
makeup.  While we tend to think of antique computer equipment as an old 286
this or 386 that or even a 486 such, these same old systems are core
components, repackaged as 'twere, in dedicated boxes that serve dedicated
purposes!

This isn't a thread, as it may have started, on DOS as such.  It's on what
I think is the real issue about DOS and what's old equipment, yet so still
important to this day.  I just sorta re-focused the DOS question into the
antique computer forum this is, sorta, in a way.

For example!  As this is being written, it's being handled by a simple 486
with 64MB of memory and a SCSI system.  It's running three BBS systems (two
of which have both POT access and one with FTP and the other with
FTP/TELNET service, a dedicated FTP Server, a private system desktop IP
host operation,and an available Apache on need full HTTP service.  All with
133Mhz of CPU speed no less.

Now this is an antique, right?  A dedicated Industrial CPU Single Board
game with a twenty slot ISA passive backplane and multiple comm port I/O
and the works, yet ...

    grin ..

And some of the systems and applications, of necessity are using DOS to
this very day!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001


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