From: bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (Bernard P. Murray, PhD) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ? Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 14:42:23 -0700 Organization: University of California, San Francisco Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <000401be8001$442d61a0$af52989e AT default> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-daddy.ucsf.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article <000401be8001$442d61a0$af52989e AT default>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote: > 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... ...then don't use their software. > Arron Shutt You'll just have to get used to this. The latest betas of NT can currently run only about 40% of *Windows* software. So, when NT becomes compulsory you'll have to buy new versions of everything. I don't think that this is accidental... Bernard -- Bernard P. Murray, PhD Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA