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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:09:22 +0000
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Subject: Re: FreeDOS (was: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?)
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walt121 AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:

> In article <Gq8P2.799$0C1 DOT 95401 AT carnaval DOT risq DOT qc DOT ca>,
>   alainm AT news DOT mcgill DOT ca (Alain Magloire) wrote:
> > It suprises me that people of thinking of FreeDOS as a good future
> > engine for DJGPP.
> The reason is because DOS is being phased out by Micro$oft.  Windows 2000,
> according to the magazines, will not have DOS capability.  Therefore, unless
> DJGPP evolves to work under Windows 2000, it is dead.

Old stuff, W2000 project changed too much, it won't mix NT 5.0 core and W98 
core (as they said until few month ago). M$ people doesn't have enough time 
to create such a beast so I think they will still supporting DOS.


> Otherwise, someone will just have to start from scratch and create a freely
> distributable, commercially usable C / C++ development system for Win 2000. 
> It is certain that M$ won't do that.

CygWin will work with W2000 and isn't the only one.

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