[Mono-list] Will this run in DOS?

[Peter M. Lemmen]

Hi,

Good old DOS is not so uncommon a platform as you might think. Data entry
stations, front-desk information systems, POS... Anything where information and
efficiency is more important then nice gui's you're bound to find DOS with an
IP stack slapped on. There's a wealth of applications, libraries and code
available for it, and it runs on even lower system requirements then Linux...
;-)

Dust off that old XT or 286 you've got in the basement, put in an 8 or 16-bit
BNC network card and you've got yourself a great text-mode terminal. :-)

As to wether .NET is fit to be used on DOS, I don't think so. .NET still relies
on the OS and libraries to provide that nice high-level environment, and DOS
just doesn't provide that...

*Ponders a Windows Forms implementation using TurboVision* :-)

Regards,

Peter.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]On
> Behalf Of Piers Haken
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 14:29
> To: John Rebbeck; mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Will this run in DOS?
>
>
> Wow, I heard some pretty ludicrous ideas before but ever using DOS again
> just about takes the biscuit.
>
> Seriously, though. Systems like .NET and Java are well suited to
> embedded environments. I'd look into either running mono on an embedded
> linux distro, porting it to something like QnX or waiting for the WinCE
> or XP-embedded versions.
>
> Piers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Rebbeck [mailto:john@rebent.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:02 AM
> To: mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: [Mono-list] Will this run in DOS?
>
>
> Would you be able to use this framework to build DOS applications? That
> way I could create my own small OS if I wanted to. It would be excellent
> for computers dedicated to 1 or 2 specific tasks, you just write your
> own single application to run on the computer and because it's .NET it
> would be so easy to do.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
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