Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : paulie420
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Feb 06 2024 11:29:00

 Og> But.. I suppose if those dashboards are not connected to the
 Og> internet and independent, then what's the harm in sticking with
 Og> Win3.11.  However.. the hardware would surely be hard to   maintain
 Og> for too long as ram and capacitors blow out, etc.

 pa> While I have no idea about this rail, many commercial MS-DOS/Win 3.11
 pa> applications run hardware that you can still purchase new today. What is
 pa> it, the PC-100 board - or something-100... you can still buy 486, Pentium,
 pa> etc. single board computers today that aren't old consumer grade hardware.

Don't know about recently, but used to be a time, a large number of stocktake
systems, with barcode scanners used to run on DOS... sans windows... nothing
pointy or clicky in the little LCD status screen.  Last time I saw one, I
think the POS was still at ~Win98 and this was well after XP was flying...
sigh even that was a long time ago now... chuckle.

Spec


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