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From: | Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. |
Date: | Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:45:57 -0700 |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote: >> RUMOR that may have quite a bit of fact to it: >>Windows Millennium is Micr0$oft's last 9x kernel based Windows version. > > Don't believe in rumors, particularly in this one. This rumor, or its > many varieties, has been around for at least 10 years, since we heard > that DOS 4.0 will be the last DOS version. This time it isn't exactly a rumour. "There will no longer be any DOS of any description, including the DOS box" or words to that direct effect were part of the M$ rep's promotional spiel on WinBalls^H^H^H^H^H 2000 at a M$ Technet seminar I attended back about April or so. ~REZ~
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