On Tuesday 25 September 2007 19:11:00 Gus Wirth wrote: > I needed to test a Maxtor drive that was showing some errors and > downloaded their diagnostic software from > <http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/seatooldreg>. > It turns out that the software runs on FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org> > which is created in the same spirit as Linux (even has some of the same > tools). I've also seen that Matrox video card utilities (BIOS reset) > also run on FreeDOS. > > Long live DOS! > > Gus
The institute where I took my professional training in 'tronics ran almost all of their manufacturing machines with DOS. no need to put up Pentium-II/256MB with Windows where a 386 with 2MB RAM could do the job. *Personally* I would've gone for pure assembler on some 80535, but, oh well :) Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
