Remember DOS? DOS is the computer language on which Windows rides. It is a language that upholds the basics of most PCs that people have in their homes today.

DOS is a very good, but backward computer language. It is the language of the handheld scanning devices - Telzons and Geminis - that are used in many major department and grocery stores for organizing inventory. Aspects of it are behind cash register/inventory coordination, including bar code scanning.

The point? Because of the tremendous number and variety of products available these days, the system is collapsing simply because DOS doesn't include a method for the computer to learn from "human being created anomalies" in inventory operations - mistakes, theft, damage, backlogs, overstock, etc. Something like a computer program that could learn would be a great boon to massive inventory movements.