Just so everyone knows, my original post was about the death of MS-DOS, not DOS. Byron, ya misquoted me. :)
Mark, thanks for the info about the reports of DOS's death being premature. Will check out freedos.org. John Hebert --- Mark Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ 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. ================================================
