If a way could be found to replace ThinOS on various models of WYSE thin
clients, they'd be ideal platforms for an embedded DOS. ThinOS usually shares
space in an extra large BIOS chip.
Installing it might involve a bit of hacking to make the OS installer creator
utility setup a USB flash drive with the DOS image instead of a ThinOS one.
Then there's the issue of OS 'locking' where only the thin clients that
originally shipped with ThinOS are supposed to be eligible for updates to new
ThinOS releases.
Versions of each model that shipped with Windows CE, Linux, or Windows embedded
versions may not have the extra large BIOS chip.
Other brands of thin clients have also had such proprietary operating systems.
I suspect they haven't been too popular because of the need to have apps
written specifically for the OS, along with a server to run them from due to
lack of onboard storage in most of those clients.
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