Don't get me started on POS systems. RANT MODE/SEEING RED (Reference Dennis Miller).
Mark Orr wrote: >On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:37:30 -0600 >Byron Como <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Larry Braud wrote: >> >>>DOS IS DEAD, LONG LIVE LINUX! >>> > >DOS aint dead...lots of modern cash registers and point-of-sale systems >use DOS. I was just at Albertsons tonight...that display screen sure >looked like good ol' codepage 437 to me :) > >>I don't know about that. Somebody is still activlly developing for DOS. >> > >Someone's actively developing DOS -> www.freedos.org > >>From the looks of the pages, it looks like it's in >more active development than ever before. Hey, they've >got DJGPP, Allegro, two graphical environments in development >(Seal and Qube). FWIW, the FreeDOS releases look pretty >regular and often. > >DOSEMU tarballs now come w/ a Freedos images (albeit, old ones). > >Shame more wasnt done with Caldera/Lineo OpenDOS - but FreeDOS was >in development before Novell gave up on DOS 7...and given that >FreeDOS was a grassroots effort, I guess it's better that the >development concentrate there. > >>Arachne, the graphical web browser for DOS. <snide remark> what a dumb >>name </snide remark> >> > >There's a betatest version of a web browser for the Apple IIgs >called "Arachnid". >( http://www.omninet.net.au/~khowe/arachnid/ ) > >-- >Mark Orr >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
