ETEN operation system

ETEN operation system

Eten operating system was the most popular DOS-compatible traditional Chinese operating system before Chinese Windows 95. Its name was derived from "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", a Chinese wuxia novel by Jinyong.

DOS did not support Chinese characters, which are not in Extended ASCII. Many companies in Taiwan developed their own IBM PC compatible traditional Chinese operation system products running on DOS, which were mutually incompatible between the OS [ [http://hk.geocities.com/l142857/ChComp/chinsys.html 中文系統發展(廠商出品)] ] [ [http://www.csu.edu.tw/cai01/chap-32.htm (¹q¤l®Ñ ->>²Ä¤T³¹ ¤¤ ¤å ¨t ²Î) ->>3.2 ¤¤¤å¿é¤J ] ] , such as Kuo Chia (國喬) and Acer. The developer of the Eten OS, E-TEN, earned their profit from sales of their card version Chinese system products. Their floppy version OS were popularly pirately copied by many traditional Chinese users and no lawsuit was heard. Most traditional Chinese products were compatible with the Eten OS at that time.

When Microsoft developed the Chinese Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, traditional Chinese software developer and users shifted to Windows from DOS. The last version of the Eten OS was a Chinese Windows-compatible version. The Eten and other traditional Chinese OS are now used in a few DOS based POS systems.

Reference

External links

* [http://www.eten.com.tw/ E-TEN]


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