[Info] Le Dos vit encore !

La société Devicelogics a annoncé le lancement de la version 8 du fameux système d'exploitation DR-DOS.

D'après Bryan Sparks, co-fondateur et CEO, "DR-DOS is the fastest-to-market, the most reliable—and with new FAT32 and Linux extensions—the absolute best operation system for single-task embedded devices".

Le DOS de Digital Research a une longue histoire derrière lui. Longtemps concurrent du DOS de Microsoft, il appartient désormais à cette société basée dans L'Utah, qui n'est pas étrangère à la nébuleuse SCO... Pour plus d'informations, je vous conseille la lecture de ce petit article sur le DR-DOS de nos confrères de Newsforge.

Au menu des fonctions :

FAT 32 file system and large disk support
Ability to boot DOS from ROM or FLASH
Comprehensive DOS utility set
Multitasking, with API for developers
Includes 286/386/486/Pentium DPMS memory manager in addition to DPMI
Stacker disk compression
NWCACHE - disk caching program
EMM386 memory manager
DOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS)
Multitasking
DR-DOS provides a full multitasking environment on Pentium, 486, or 386-based hardware. This is built into the memory management extensions provided in the operating system, and is accessible for standard un-aware applications when using the Task manager (Taskmgr) utility. Programs however can have direct access to create separate threads etc, via the extended Application Programming Interface
DPMS - A memory manager that works on 286/386/486/Pentium-based PCs, allowing device drivers to reside outside of the regular DOS application area. Drivers or Terminate stay-resident applications can thereby avoid using valuable application memory.
ROM tools available

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