For what purpose is DOS still being used? (Was eRPG) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hans Bolt wrote:

>BTW, for what purpose is DOS still being used
>among your users?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints still uses DOS.  The
financial, membership, calendaring, and other systems used in most
congregations are DOS based.  Their popular Personal Ancestral File
(Genealogy) program is DOS based.  Several of the "Family History"
systems are DOS based.

Is the church anti-technology?  No.  On the contrary, the church also has
some of the most modern systems available.

I can only speculate that many of their systems are DOS based because the
church feels the resources it would take to upgrade to Pentium-Windows
systems would be better spent elsewhere.  From personal experience,
I can say the DOS based software is high quality.

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