PC-DOS 3.3

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Mon Dec 12 18:12:06 CST 2005


In article <009601c5ff77$2d7439f0$0500fea9 at game>,
    "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>  writes:

> Are there any commercial uses for CP/M anymore? I would think that some old
> sales terminals still use DOS as an OS.

The vendor I mentioned earlier gets copies of MS-DOS 6.22 for resale
to a vendor of medical devices.  It seems that its more cost effective
to secure errant (though legit w/seal of authenticity and all) copies
of MS-DOS 6.22 than it is to port the application to another OS and
then get everything re-certified via the FDA (medical device regulation
is particularly onerous apparently).

So yes, there are things that are still using MS-DOS 6.22 and for good
(economic) reasons.  I think that these copies of MS-DOS 6.22 are
keeping his store alive :-).
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