Rumors of the Death of Dos are, as they say, premature. Saw in one of the PC rags last week where they are now developing, and selling, GUI interfaces for the DOS industrial control and warehouse management tools that have been running perfectly for 15 years or so, and nobody, but nobody, _EVER_ wants to see it crash.
SO, they put a gui face on it ostensibly to speed the training of new employees who dont know what a CLI is. I frankly have my doubts about hiring anyone that stupid, but it aint upta me. Whatever; the fact is that automated process control dont need a 3D graphic engine to keep the robots running. The robots are almost blind. Pick and Place only needs to know if the part is there, and dont care what color it is. much less which of 4million possible hues. This is yet another example of the kind of grunt stuff which is a part of the quantum leap that the PC and DOS brought to the economy. It is an interesting idea, somewhat like nix and xwin, to have the gui code very separate from the basic os so that you can close down a crashed video output, but still have the process control systems operating normally. But I've seen cases with xwin where ctrl/alt/bksp did not close it down, and I hadda power down. Arachne has the same problem. but this proposal is prolly more robust; after all, it dont havta decode win html. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
