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From: "Arron Shutt" <version8 AT ashutt DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:43:21 +0100
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>
>Don't panic!
>
>I've been doing some thinking lately about where DJGPP is going.  I've
>concluded to myself that it really isn't *going* anywhere, it's
>*there*.  The core code is pretty stable and feature-full.  GNU ports
>come out often enough, and we're becoming "just another unix platform"
>for a lot of people.  The web pages have pretty much everything I can
>think to add to them (although we can always use more documentation :)
>The big focus these days is on third-party additions (like Allegro)
>and applications.
>
>Cool.
>
>The big question I have for you all is this:  What's next?


My vote would be a Free Software DOS  - 16/32 Bit, and with a Windows (X) +
Windows manager to run on top of it. If you could get OurWin to run existing
Windows apps via emulation, or a library that provides the same
functionality without the bloat..then I could remove the original..

It is fairly clear to me that MS are trying to break the DOS platform. Some
of my DOS apps don't run under the emulator they've installed into NT. I
have loads of DOS software which I like using and I don't fancy losing that
just to suit the upgrade demands of a company who doesn't care about the
people who use their software...

I think we could do a better job than the original DOS/Windows and build in
the bits that they left out..

BTW I have Linux and like using it, but I do have a soft spot for DOS. It
would be nice if I could have a version which was free software and
available to all, after MS have wiped the last traces of it from their
software... :-(

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Arron Shutt
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"You can jump all you like but it's the day of the cow" - Mike Keneally