Hi Brad,
Caldera's DRDOS may be an expedient.
It overcomes the Y2K thing by lying to programs about the year, after the date
changes to 2000.
That may keep you up and running until you can get Linux online.
Although, I do believe Linux is the way to go, this may give you time to get
there.
Regards,
Rodney Fisk<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Brad Joyce wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a client who has system manager. (A multitasking dos based
> operating system that is not y2k compliant) The terminals are a mix of
> ethernet and serial connections.
> Can anyone help in the design of a linux based system to replace it?
>
> The current system has a dos based database point of sale system that is
> resident on the system manager server. It is able to run three copies of
> the software on terminals and on the servers own monitor.
> The server is a pentium 200 with 32Mb Ram and the terminals are a 386
> runing win3.11, a pentium 166 running win95 and a remote connection via
> modem. The remote computer is running win 95 on a laptop.
> There are 2 printers. one on the pentium server and the other on the
> pentium workstation.
>
> The POS dos program is essential.
>
> This is just a preliminary letter to see if anyone can help and at what cost.
>
> Awaiting your promt reply.
>
> Brad Joyce.
