I gave up on DOS. Nobody wants to support it
and the marketing people at Power Basic are
too stupid to understand the advantages.
Most of the work in this area is focused
on Real Time Linux so I will go with the
flow.

Here is what the Anything 72 bit I/O card looks like.
http://www.mesanet.com/
These are widely used in NC mill upgrades
along with real time Linux so there is a lot
of development going on. Real Time Linux supports
all the new hardware coming out such as DVD burners
and USB.


Peter at Mesa told me the cheap $80 Intel Atom
ITX motherboards work great.

Paul Lamar