Press Release of PETERS PLUS LTD. (06.03.2003)

Press Release of PETERS PLUS LTD.
06.03.2003

Estex Disk SubSystem 1.6 Release

   We publish Estex Disk SubSystem 1.6 Release for Sprinter computers with mainboards Sp2000 (Sp2000-Light) and with BIOS 3.xx. It's free for download.

    We continue designing Estex operating system for Sprinter computer. New version of the Estex Disk SubSystem (DSS) is the new step to the powerful operating system, which should be finished this year. Estex DSS is a module of Estex only. But it can be useful for you as independent system at present already. And we hope, this new version will be one more proof of it.
    Estex DSS 1.6 Release included a lot of suggestions of Sprinter users. We worked contacting experienced programmers. Thanks a lot to all Registered Software Developers who took part in this work. It was really helpful for us and we should continue it. Probably, not all possible improvements were released today, but all known bugs were fixed and some important features were added. There are several enhancements of System Kernel and Command Processor. Overview of all changings you can see in Release Notes.
    Also we want to suggest a some another structure of Estex DSS in the new version. System Environment which was released as new system feature to use environment variables has allowed to expand commands list by adding external commands.

    Following external commands are included in the Estex DSS 1.6:

ATTRIB	Show/Change file(s) or directory attributes.
BOOT	Puts bootstrap record to the disk.
CDX	CDROM extension.
COPY	Copy a file.
FVIEW	View a text file.
IF	Exitcode condition.
INPUT	Input environment variable.
KEYBOARD	Keyboard control.
MENU	User menu.
RAMDRIVE	Create 720K RAM-drive.

Some of these external commands are well known as utilityes. Yes all it are command-line programs, but now they were included to the Estex DSS distribution. This solution should strengthen operating system of Sprinter computer. So, more features will be available immediately after installation of Estex DSS on your hard disk. And in same time, system is compact what allow to use it even on diskette.

Start from System Diskette

We recommend to upgrade Estex DSS on your Sprinter computers, using new bootable System Diskette. It contain installer and all instructions for upgrading or full installation of Estex DSS 1.6.

Alex Goryachev
Sprinter Project Manager

PETERS PLUS LTD
e-mail: sprinter@petersplus.ru
http://www.petersplus.ru
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