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Porting DOS Applications to Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the changing-architectures dept.

jgbustos asks: "I'm the manager of a small software development company. For the last five years we've been managing a communications network consisting of several thousand PC terminals which connects to an NT server over the phone lines. The terminals run a console application on a light DOS. Everything is fine so far. So what's the problem, then? We have a hard time finding parts to maintain the network. Our client says that he's willing to invest in hardware upgrades, but we should move to a Windows-like environment, however he doesn't want to pay for more than 4000 Windows licenses. What's the best alternative for porting our app to Linux/? Please bear in mind that the terminals are small PC's having 16MB RAM, less than 2GB HD, less than i586 CPU, and a 33k modem. Thanks in advance"

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  1. Ok by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm now going to shove my foot in my mouth. There. Couldn't you pretty much just recompile?

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    Why not fork?
  2. Porting by Brian_at_Work · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please... thats all we need is more DoS tools on Linux, so all the script kiddies can brag about how l33t they are...
    Make the code their own DoS tools, like we did back in my day... in machine code