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News Release from: Datalight | Subject: ROM-DOS 7.1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 August 2002
DOS lives on in embedded solutions
Datalight reckons ROM-DOS 7.1 is the most configurable, reliable and Internet ready MS-DOS compatible operating system available to embedded developers.
Datalight reckons ROM-DOS 7.1 is the most configurable, reliable and Internet ready MS-DOS compatible operating system available to embedded developers Introduced in 1989, ROM-DOS is the industry leader in DOS technology with over 6 million installs worldwide
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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ROM-DOS 7.1 excels in a variety of embedded solutions, from Canon digital cameras to Dialogic voice mail systems.
ROM-DOS's scalability combined with its reliability and small memory footprint, make it the ideal choice for embedded developers.
ROM-DOS 7.1 features include long file name support, large disk drive support, relocatable executable (RXE), and a suite of development tools including Borland C/C++ compiler.
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Long file name (LFN) support eliminates the need for the traditional 8.3 naming convention.
ROM-DOS 7.1 uses the standard Windows/DOS APIs to read write and delete long file names.
LFN support allows filenames up to 256 characters in length.
ROM-DOS 7.1 contains support for large disk drives.
DOS users are no longer limited to 2Gbyte disk drives.
ROM-DOS 7.1 reads and writes data on Fat32 formatted disks.
This disk support is completely transparent to the application, so no code changes are required to access large disk files.
No new APIs are required.
Application programs can be easily converted to have the code run from ROM with the use of the relocatable executable (RXE) feature with ROM-DOS 7.1.
RXE changes the standard DOS EXE into a program that resides on a ROM disk.
Use of the RXE capability helps OEMs save on memory requirements.
The ROM-DOS 7.1 software developers kit ships with a complete set of development tools including Borland C v.5.02 compiler, Borland assembler and other tools developed specifically by Datalight for use with its embedded system software components.
The SDK also includes Datalight Sockets.
A suite of tools that includes a TCP/IP stack, Sockets is designed to Internet-enable embedded devices.
It supports the ability to send and receive e-mail, transfer files via FTP, run a remote console, launch a local web browser, or print to a network printer.
"We chose Datalight ROM-DOS because it allows greater flexibility with hardware vendors.
We no longer worry whether a single board manufacturer will have stock or not.
ROM-DOS will drop right in regardless of where we purchase our boards", said Andrew Thompson, Thompson Technologies.
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