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- [ 1. Overview]
- GENERAL SOFTWARE EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 [tm] OVERVIEW
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- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 is our run-from-ROM DOS designed especially
- for makers of volume consumer electronics products. It features
- small size, low royalty cost, and autodetection of ROM disk images
- and underlying hardware for simple operation.
-
- If you're already shipping MS-DOS, DR-DOS, or ROM-DOS, you're only 15
- minutes away from saving your company up to 90% on DOS royalties, and
- possibly even some ROM or Flash real estate.
-
- KEY POINTS:
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- 1. EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 HAS THE SMALLEST DOS KERNEL AVAILABLE
- 2. EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 HAS THE LOWEST ROYALTY RATE
- 3. EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 INSTALLATION IS SIMPLE
- 4. EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 IS FLEXIBLE IF YOU WANT IT TO BE
- 5. EMBEDDED DOS-ROM 6.22 RUNS DIRECTLY FROM ROM OR DISK
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- SMALLEST SIZE DOS, HANDS DOWN
-
- This implementation of DOS is the smallest available. It runs directly
- out of ROM and occupies less than 32KB, leaving enough room in the same
- 64KB ROM or Flash block for a respectibly-large 32KB BIOS. The 32KB
- barrier has been broken, and Embedded DOS-ROM will save you money by
- saving space.
-
- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 also consumes very little RAM. It needs
- some RAM (8-10KB) for its own workspace, which it uses when your
- applications open files and allocate other resources. This space
- is kept to a minimum in the standard distribution release of
- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22, and is expandable in the source-level
- configuration options for those customers who need hundreds of
- open files.
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- LOWEST ROYALTY RATE IN THE INDUSTRY
-
- This DOS serves the needs of makers of volume consumer electronics.
- Cost is critical in phones, faxes, personal email and pager systems,
- and internet appliances. Every penny counts. And for us, every
- royalty-producing product counts. That's why we've priced our
- royalties 25% less than the closest competition, to be certain that
- we'll earn your business by saving you money.
-
- SIMPLE, SIMPLE, SIMPLE
-
- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 is SIMPLICITY itself. There is nothing to
- configure unless you want to buy the source and manipulate the 100
- configuration options yourself. The binary versions of Embedded
- DOS-ROM 6.22 are ready to drop-in and use in your system in place
- of an existing ROM-able DOS.
-
- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 is automatic. It can automatically scan memory
- to find your MS-DOS-compatible ROM disk image, even in extended memory.
- When found, the built-in ROM disk automatically makes it available
- as a drive, and will process your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- on the disk.
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- Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 also automatically detects chipsets such as
- the RadiSys R380 and AMD Elan Am386SC300 CPU, and when found, programs
- them to give extra memory to DOS and application programs, WITHOUT
- THE NEED TO LOAD AN EXTRA MEMORY MANAGER.
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- FLEXIBLE, VERY FLEXIBLE
-
- If you need flexibility, Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 has just the support.
- With over 100 options at the source level, all selectable from within
- one file called OPTIONS.INC, you can command Embedded DOS-ROM's build
- process to selectively enable or disable individual CONFIG.SYS and
- COMMAND.COM commands, enable the tiny internal COMMAND.COM interpreter,
- and configure the scratch RAM footprint.
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- We've made the configuration of Embedded DOS-ROM 6.22 affordable.
- For only $995, we supply every last line of source code in the
- operating system including system files, COMMAND.COM, utilities,
- and device drivers.
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