You (and Bo) seem to totally miss the point. I'm not talking about personal
comptuer uses, but embedded systems. Designing, implementing, manufacturing
them as products... not something for my own personal use.
I'm quite serious about the Rebol on DOS question, but from Bo's sarcastic
remark (if that's indicative of company policy) I can see it's fallen on
deaf ears.
R.
At 12:59 PM 10/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>> While (hopefully) someone is looking, are there any plans for Rebol/DOS? I
>> know... DOS is old and antiquated and has no multitasking or windowing
>> features, but it IS SMALL, and FREE/CHEAP (DRDOS, FREEDOS, etc), and
>> requires very little computing resources... ideal for many of the
>> applications I'd like to pursue with REBOL. The philosophy of rebol states
>> that it is intended for set-top boxes and the like, wouldn't DOS be a good
>> candidate (w/o HD, just run from ROM/RAM) for implementing such things?
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>Why not grabbing an old Amiga 500 for such kind of stuff. And there you
>really have more than 8+3 characters. Or an A1200 which could give enough
>animation capability and video compatible output ideally usable in set top
>boxes ;-)
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>Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://helios.home.pages.de
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