A ROM-DOS is an embedded operating system designed to allow DOS applications to run on embedded hardware.

Programmers can develop and begin testing applications on standard desktop computers running MS-DOS. Then they can copy the application to the embedded system running ROM-DOS.

Because ROM-DOS is designed to boot off solid-state ROM, it allows embedded systems to be nearly "instant on", compared to booting from a floppy disk or a hard drive which are much slower.

Many PC/104 computers run ROM-DOS^*. At least one digital camera runs ROM-DOS^*.

See also

• LinuxBIOS
• FreeDOS

External links

• Datalight, Inc. produces ROM-DOS. For non-commercial use, it is a free download.
• WinSystems is one of the distributers of Datalight's ROM-DOS
• PTS ROM-DOS
• Tunes wiki

Embedded systems | Embedded operating systems

ROM-DOS