ALERT? New Life for Alpha Four*? New Life For DOS...ZDNet...
"...Since 1997, Orem, UT-based Caldera, Inc. has sold 3,000,000 copies of DR-DOS -- an MS-DOS compatible operating system acquired from Digital Research by way of Novell. And repositioned DR-DOS for a market at least 10 times larger than the personal computing world.
I am referring to the market for small devices that connect to a network -- to an intranet or to the Internet itself. Examples include smart phones, set-top boxes, personal digital assistants, cash registers, factory automation, process control, avionics, handhelds, kiosks, pay-at-the-pump, airline entertainment, security panels, photocopiers, fax machines, game machines, calculators, medical and laboratory measurement, palmtops, organizers and network computers.
Starting to see why this market could explode in the next five years?..." source: © [Monday 20 July] 1998 ZD Anchor Desk Breaking Story zdnet.com
*Alpha Four System Requirements 386 or better with at least 4MB or RAM (8 MB recommended to run under Windows) Hard disk or file server required (program requires 6 MB of disk space). DOS 3.1 or higher Novell NetWare version 2.12 or above and all NetBios networks supported. alphasoftware.com is No. 1 database for DOS source: Alpha Software |
