China DOS Union

It seems that compared with foreign countries, our country really is a long way behind; even in DOS development we lag far behind them. You can't blame DOS for having seen little development in recent years, you can only blame the fact that domestically DOS has basically seen no development in recent years. Therefore, we should recognize this and work hard to catch up!

Then what are we in Taiwan supposed to do?? We're even further behind!!

I think this is only a symptom (which field in our country is currently at the forefront of the world?), the fundamental problem is the overall environment: only seeking surface results and not the root of things, measuring everything by money, and in order to appear prosperous in the short term, using many improper methods that ignore future generations. What people don't realize is that a sound economy needs solid science and technology as its foundation, and that leaves no room for any subjective wishes. There is also the issue of values: right now public opinion guides the masses toward things like being "cool," "alternative," "individual," and "fashionable," but without a solid economic and cultural foundation, all of that is meaningless.

That has depth. Although I'm not from the mainland and don't know what your country's situation is like, I very much agree with what you said.

I agree with nre's view. Our national conditions are just like this, and the overall environment is like this too. That's why our software industry is so backward. And our hardware is no more than simple processing of supplied materials. This is also why so many overseas students are unwilling to return home. Although the advanced ideas abroad are very good, they are not necessarily suitable for our country, so our DOS can only be aimed at the needs of the general public here. Therefore, people like us can only become the pioneers of a new DOS, and cannot expect to make major breakthroughs like those abroad.

Hehe!! I really don't know what the situation on the mainland is actually like, but in Taiwan, there are really very, very few people using DOS now.

What nre said was brief, but also very profound and penetrating.

There's no help for it! To become a programming expert takes a lot of time and money, and many people can only manage
their own food and shelter. And there isn't a good learning environment either.

What I hate most is that they block access to many foreign websites.

Also, they even disabled Google's cached pages feature.

Dark-Destroy:
Let me give a little report on the current state of DOS development in Taiwan.
From what I can see, the current development of DOS is rather sad.
Schools no longer teach DOS, and when training the new generation of programmers, they all use the Windows series.

As a result, DOS programmers in Taiwan are almost an extinct species; you could put them in a museum.
But DOS applications in Taiwan will not disappear because of this, nor become extinct because of it.
The application of DOS in Taiwan has now entered two forms: embedded use and streamlined use.
Generally speaking, DOS's biggest problems are that it does not have a very good or user-friendly GUI, and it lacks multithreaded operation.
This has also made DOS a hidden hero working behind the scenes. I don't know whether you all drive, especially automatic-transmission cars,
but most of the computer controllers inside automatic cars still use 186 CPUs plus DOS to get the job done.

Some people may wonder whether, in today's high-end cars (such as the two B brands), the Bluetooth systems and vehicle-status sensing systems in those cars are beyond what a 186 CPU or
a higher-end x86 CPU can do.
That's right, so development in Taiwan has already gone in the direction of developing dedicated CPUs of its own. Thanks to advances in semiconductor technology,
ordinary people can use CPLD or FPGA to complete the development of dedicated CPUs; in other words, turning them into single-chip implementations.
One path for DOS development in Taiwan is moving in this direction.

The other path is the design of industrial-purpose machines. Because of the working environment and the skill level of the operators of industrial-purpose machines,
beautiful GUI operating screens and convenient mouse operations cannot possibly be used in that kind of environment. What this kind of field requires is operation
that is simple and easy, with fast response speed.

So, the other road is the design of industrial-purpose machines.

The environment is only an external factor.