A lot of us rely on DOS for our contest logging. According to Microsoft's
policies, all support for DOS and Windows 95 ended on 31 December 2001 and
product end-of-life follows one year later:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.mspx
Of course, this doesn't mean much, since as long as we have DOS floppies and
PCs that can load them, we can continue to build DOS-based logging systems.
Has anyone experimented with any of these DOS replacements (in a contest
environment)? I thought that DR-DOS had some sort of
http://www.freedos.org/
http://www.drdos.com/
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/dos/
My recollection is that DR-DOS had some sort of networking support built-in.
73 - Jim AD1C
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