Hi Petr, Thanks for carrying my simple question further... (I can only imagine the responses NOW!) heheh. Yes, that's a related, or extended, area of interest for me... I simply thought the question of DOS was a large enough leap to see what the "low end" intentions of REBOL were (and now we know at least current plans). While I concur that an O/S-less REBOL has merit, and also would agree that REBOL w/o TCP/IP could find many homes, personally I DO WANT TCP/IP in my version, for the types of devices I am considering. But this seems to gets back to the related thread of "modular REBOL" where one picks/chooses what is needed for a given application. Still an intriguing (though probably far fetched?) idea. Russ ------ At 12:30 PM 10/28/99 +0100, you wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > It was certainly not my intention to begin or participate in a flame contest >> > over this. I simply asked what I thought was a very straightforward, >> > logical, and meaningful question... and I'm still looking for a direct >> > answer. Perhaps this is the wrong forum. From private replies I've >> >> Well, Russ, I don't know the embedded market as you do, but I >> don't think MSDOS is a good choice for this market. I'm sure there >> are a lot of embedded OSes out there that are better than MSDOS; >> however, there's also the problem that REBOL implementation >> probably assumes a 32 bit system, so it would not easily be ported >> to 16 or 8 bit systems. >> > >I am not sure you fully understand Russ. DOS was just one example, but he sees >possibility of Rebol becoming also language sutied well for various microCPU, >microcontroller usagaes, which are often programmed in Basic or Assembler. It >would not require OS! It would not require TCP/IP. I think I know what he does >mean, as our astronomy group started development of own CCD camera, where >microchip programming is the issue. It would be nice to use REBOL-like syntax >language for it too. REBOL is about unification of aproaches. There is many chips, >many programming aproaches to them -and - it's another real bussiness oportunity. >We are talking about companies like Atmel, Tohsiba, Analog Devices, etc. I would >suggest REBOL Technologies to investigate such market. Think about it - REBOL >everywhere. I saw software implementation of I2C protocol, would be nice to have >in REBOL, and - IT IS DEFINITELY ABOUT COMMUNICATION (MESSAGING) .. > >My two cents :-) > >-pekr- > >> >> Ciao, >> /Gabriele./ >> o--------------------) .-^-. (----------------------------------o >> | Gabriele Santilli / /_/_\_\ \ Amiga Group Italia --- L'Aquila | >> | GIESSE on IRC \ \-\_/-/ / http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/ | >> o--------------------) `-v-' (----------------------------------o > > >
