Same sort of announcement has repeatedly been made about the "Death of Mainframes" or the Death of the Stock Investors because the (ad)venture capitol bubble has deflated.
I found it rather amazing that all the major California electrical utility companies still use 50 year old computers with "Core Memory" to control parts of the national electrical distribution grid. I know this for a fact because there is a "garage business" near Grass Valley, CA, which has in excess of $1,000,000 per year in sales for repairing those out of date computers. There is also a company in Pleasanton, CA which builds from scratch "new" Z-80 computers which are running the testing software for ALL water-cooled Cray computers used by the National Laboratories. As Charles said "There are no 'regular OS', each has/had it's uses." John Oram Robert C Wittig wrote: > > > There are no 'regular OS', each has/had it's uses. > > Yes, ever so often, the 'Death of DOS' is solemnly announced.<g> > > I use a straight DOS OS on most of my vintage computers, and Windows and > Linux on my newer, Internet connected boxes. I also use Windows for Pen > 1.0 on my vintage GRiD pen computers. A while back, I had a OS/2 > installed on one of my computers, but took it off, as the box didn't have > enough RAM for anything except DOS. I guess I am an OS junkie.<g> > > My biggest practical uses for the DOS environment are word processing, > and writing non- I/O related C modules... the logic stuff, that is OS > independent, and can then be dropped into whatever OS system you want, > and compiled with I/O modules specific to that (or those) OS's. > > I just like the feel of my old computers, and the elegance of a lot of > the old software. I also enjoy working w/o a mouse. > > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > A business is as honest as its advertisements. > . > > 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 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
