OpenEuphoria

Re: Freedos package

• Posted by Marco Achury <achury at ?antv.net> May 04, 2008
• 871 views

Salix wrote:
> 
> Just a quick note. Thank you for taking care of the DOS distribution. I am
> proud
> to see Euphoria in FreeDOS repository.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Salix

Yes, is nice to find Euphoria at ibiblio (and mirrors).  FreeDOS has not 
oportunity to compete agains windows or linux as the main operative 
system for daily use.  Except for people with very old hardware.

But has some applications.  FreeDOS has received a lot of free publicity 
from DELL that included the system as an option for people buying PCs.  
Video card manufacturers and others have included in the hardware a FreeDOS 
boot disk (CDROM or floppy) with tools to make bios updates and other 
maintenance work.  There will be an impresive market for embebed applications
like
point of sale or industrial control computers.  Look an example at: 

http://www.jkmicro.com/products/flashtcp.html  

This kind of equipment may receive a very small version of the interpreter, 
or Euphoria code translated and compiled on C.

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Marco A. Achury
Caracas, Venezuela