Datalight DOS Selected for Canon's New Line of Digital Still Cameras.ARLINGTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1998--Datalight announced today that its popular ROM-DOS has been selected as the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. for a new line of digital still cameras, the Canon PowerShot The PowerShot products are a line of consumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1995. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. A5, will be available in the USA in August, 1998. Datalight ROM-DOS is a fully compatible MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. work-alike. The incorporation of ROM-DOS into their new line of digital cameras allows Canon to take advantage of a proven technology. As Yukichi Niwa, Advisory Director of the Digital Imaging Business Group of Canon, explained, "Canon's basic philosophy is conventional camera-like full flatness and reliability. We selected Datalight DOS because of its less than 50KB lightness, the file system reliability and because it is a long lasting and well-understood platform." Datalight has licensed more than one and one-half million units of ROM-DOS over the past five years, making it a veteran operating system for both consumer-level and embedded-system products, and ROM-DOS shipments show no signs of slowing. "Actually, DOS usage is on the increase," stated Tim Gillman, Vice-President of Marketing at Datalight, Inc. "This increase is due primarily to the need for DOS in higher-volume products, especially in the consumer area." Another reason for high confidence in ROM-DOS is Datalight's level of product support. Datalight is committed to the full support of its DOS for the next five years, longer if the market so demands. This level of support ensures forward compatibility (jargon) forward compatibility - The ability to accept input from later versions of itself. Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope for future products in the years to come, not just for Canon, but for all manufacturers that include Datalight's DOS in their products. Datalight develops and licenses professional quality system software, including operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and development tools for the x86 architecture The generic term x86 refers to the "CISC" type instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture[1] in the history of personal computing, used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and others. . The company's primary products include: ROM-DOS(TM) 6.22 a compact, flexible DOS compatible operating system, WinLight(TM) a "non-fat" Windows(TM) work-alike embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. , and FlashFX(R), a high performance flash file system for Resident Flash Arrays. Companies throughout the world depend on Datalight software in industrial and consumer applications. CONTACT: Datalight Tim Gillman, 360/435-8086 x-115 Fax: 360/435-0253 Email: timg@datalight.com |
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