Hahaha. I think about the party game of whispering a message from person to person and comparing the transmitted message to the original.
John Hebert wrote: >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. >================================================ > ================================================ 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. ================================================
