Excerpt from Jim Hall:
> The three "infobox" tiles (Games, Legacy apps, Embedded systems) come
> from a survey I ran several years ago, to ask how people use FreeDOS.
> People responded that they use FreeDOS for three main things:
> 1. Playing classic DOS games
> 2. Running legacy DOS applications (such as for business, or for fun)
> 3. Developing for an embedded system
> However, I think I ran that survey in 2015. And five years is a long
> time. I don't know how many people use DOS these days to run an
> embedded system (when I served as CIO in government, I retired our
> last DOS embedded system in 2019 - and government is often the last to
> retire such things. So it might not be useful to mention "embedded
> systems" on the updated site. I might remove the "Embedded" infobox or
> replace it with something else.
My main use for freeDOS is to run Borland Quattro 5 for DOS, also possibly
dBASE IV 1.1.
But I don't do that often, preferring Gnumeric spreadsheet, which does not run
under DOS.
For embedded systems, I think the embedded community is moving to Linux with
musl C library.
There are various toolkits available for compiling Linux toolchains and root
systems:
crosstool-ng (crosstool-ng.org)
ptxdist (ptxdist.org)
Yocto Project and Open Embedded (yoctoproject.org and yoctoproject.org)
OpenADK (openadk.org)
Openwrt (openwrt.org)
musl-cross-make:
-bash-5.0$ git -C ../musl-cross-make remote -v
origin https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make.git (push)
Buildroot (buildroot.org), but my impression is unfavorable.
Tom
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