Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/02/19:18:31
Dave Cigna (cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu) wrote:
: DR. Andras Solyom <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu> wrote:
: >But I am a little bit sceptical about OpenDOS's future. It is too late
: >now for DOS. Like it or not the dominance of DOS was a result of
: >Microsoft's and IBM's software strategy. Now everyone (except us...)
: >wants to use some version of Windows.
: Which, no doubt, is exactly the reason that Caldera is giving it away
: for free. I expect that they know it has a limited future and don't
: want to become involved in supporting it commercially. It's interesting
: though, that they're going to any effort at all to prepare it and make
: it available. It would be easier to put everything in a store room and
: let it collect dust.
: -- Dave Cigna
Please just let me add that I'm another DJGPP user who uses DOS by choice,
so maybe there are more of us out there than we may suspect <grin>.
Most respectfully,
Margo Schulter
mschulter AT mpu DOT com
- Raw text -