On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Евгений Нежданов <copperm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. I want statistics about FreeDOS usage and general DOS usage of > the world. I have few programs written by me for the MS-DOS since many > years ago. This is a graphical library (written in the Turbo Pascal), > multiwindowed text editor (written in the Turbo Pascal), > object-oriented GUI making library in the Pascal, BASIC interpretter > (written in the Turbo Pascal and other written in the QBASIC). This is > all software are in the GNU GPL v3 license and in the scratched > (non-complete) state. I can be complete all of this software if > programming for the DOS platform is so far have a sense and required > by users. How more people in now use DOS in real daily life? Only the > DOS necromastrubators? :) I can be rewrite to FreeDOS favorite > language - C - my projects, such as universal graphical library > (supports all video modes from CGA 320x200 onto the VESA 3584x2488 > 32-bit color).
Hi. teogum replied to your other email on this topic, but here's my contribution. Today, FreeDOS is often used by three types of users: 1. People who want to play old DOS games 2. Developers, to run embedded systems 3. Businesses, to run legacy DOS software There aren't usage numbers for FreeDOS like you can get for Windows or Mac, which typically equate to "numbers of licenses sold" or "number of Macs sold". But I can tell you about how many times the FreeDOS distribution was downloaded. I've been keeping track of downloads since the FreeDOS 1.1 release in January 2012. We're seeing 40,000-42,000 downloads per month over the last few months. Here are the number of downloads of the FreeDOS distribution per month in 2012: 16570 20611 20970 28226 18034 26952 30118 44820 50736 40087 40087 42175 So far in January 2013, we have had 28,987 downloads of FreeDOS. At the current rate, we'll have over 39,000 downloads by the end of January. I should be clear that the above numbers are for both FreeDOS 1.0 and FreeDOS 1.1. If you are interested in just the number of downloads for FreeDOS 1.1, here they are per month in 2012: 16496 19671 20879 28129 17930 21977 21146 35228 40482 32348 31755 33373 And so far in January 2013, we have had 22,991 downloads of FreeDOS 1.1. By the end of January, that should be almost 31,000 just for FreeDOS 1.1. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
