On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:15:24 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Cristian Burneci wrote:
>> I believe DR-DOS is largely used on embedded systems like industrial process
>> controllers.
> Yes, the factory that I work in (the largest single supplier of a
> certain widget to the automobile business) has forty plastic injection
> molding machines, plus numerous robots and other control systems--all
> of them controlled by embedded computer systems running some variant
> of DOS.
Yes......for example, rail traffic through Junee, a large interchange
centre in Australia, is controlled by a little DOS program written 7
years ago by my de-facto.
It is written appropriately enough with a "deadmans handle" which
crashproofs the program by very frequent restarts. The whole things fits
on a floppy.
Kali
http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali
