MSDOS c jobs

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Wills

HI all,
I am working in C under MSDOS.Incase I leave my company will i get
any job which may give me a programming job under unix or other OS.I
feel DOS is very old and my bos is also planning to shift the os to
some other OS.I know a little bit of java programming and database
programming.But i dont find time practising them.I work only on c
under DOS and finding it not much interesting.
 
G

Gordon Burditt

I am working in C under MSDOS.Incase I leave my company will i get
any job which may give me a programming job under unix or other OS.I
feel DOS is very old and my bos is also planning to shift the os to
some other OS.I know a little bit of java programming and database
programming.But i dont find time practising them.I work only on c
under DOS and finding it not much interesting.

It's possible you could find a job for some company desperate to
keep their legacy MS-DOS applications alive, but I wouldn't count
on it. Having other skills is important. It wouldn't hurt learning
skills for the OS that your boss is likely to shift to, if you can
get hints about what OS that is.

Knowing multiple languages or multiple platforms helps, even if you
mostly use just one. For C, learn what parts of C are platform-independent
and what parts are DOS-specific. Then you might take some time and
learn how to do the DOS-specific stuff on another platform, like
UNIX or Windows. It would be a very bad idea to propose a solution
for a UNIX platform and blather on about INT 13H during a job
interview. A lot of what you know about C will carry over to UNIX.

It wouldn't hurt to pick a platform you'd like to learn, like Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, or Windows, set it up on a computer at home, and
practice with it. Learning general database programming and SQL
is also a good idea. There also, SQL has a standard, but there are
lots of extensions and platform-specific details between MySQL,
MSSQL, Oracle, Postgres, and other databases. A lot of general
knowledge about SQL and database design carries over to any database.
 
W

Wills

It's possible you could find a job for some company desperate to
keep their legacy MS-DOS applications alive, but I wouldn't count
on it. Having other skills is important. It wouldn't hurt learning
skills for the OS that your boss is likely to shift to, if you can
get hints about what OS that is.

Knowing multiple languages or multiple platforms helps, even if you
mostly use just one. For C, learn what parts of C are platform-independent
and what parts are DOS-specific. Then you might take some time and
learn how to do the DOS-specific stuff on another platform, like
UNIX or Windows. It would be a very bad idea to propose a solution
for a UNIX platform and blather on about INT 13H during a job
interview. A lot of what you know about C will carry over to UNIX.

It wouldn't hurt to pick a platform you'd like to learn, like Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, or Windows, set it up on a computer at home, and
practice with it. Learning general database programming and SQL
is also a good idea. There also, SQL has a standard, but there are
lots of extensions and platform-specific details between MySQL,
MSSQL, Oracle, Postgres, and other databases. A lot of general
knowledge about SQL and database design carries over to any database.

Thanks Gordon,
I am learning linux and POSTGRESQL but not so confident ye .I am
planning for a shift in my job.Thanks a lot.
 

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