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From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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At 03:54 PM 4/5/99 +1000, you wrote:
>I just got to say, this thread is scary. I never even thought of the
>possibility that when microsoft leave DOS behind permanently, it will be
>difficult to keep DJGPP alive. I, for one, will stick with DJGPP till the
>end (which is, hopefully, not too soon), and if microsoft stop supporting
>DOS altogether then we, as the users of DJGPP will be the renegade computer
>users that microsoft fights to aboloish.
>
>The answer? Well, if we could only get a hold of the DOS source
>code......:-).....no, hold on, that won't happen, not with ms as the
>captain.

What scares me is I really don't HAVE A DOS--from the beginning, I mean.
I have what started as around DOS 4 or so then upgrade, upgrade 5 and then
upgrade 6 then 6.22 and so on to IBM DOS 7.0, which is real good by the way,
but if I had to install DOS into a new machine I don't know what I could do!!

Can you go out and buy DOS now--not an upgrade, but I mean the real thing
to start up. I don't think you can. Can you?

I mean, suppose you bought a new machine and then tried to install DOS on
it--thinking the future when there will be no DOS with Windows 001 or 
whatever--will you be able to do that? I think the only really startup DOS I
have in the house is what I got with the old 286--everything else is upgrade,
upgrade, upgrade.

It's not that DJGPP will die, no, it's just taking off in its
possibilities, its how
will newcomers get ahold of DOS. Do you think Microsoft will continue
forever to provide DOS with Windows into the future? It's a question, not a
remark. Will they?