From: clee2 AT envirolink DOT org (Chris Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: 7 Sep 1999 14:34:28 GMT
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In article <37D4C2B5 DOT 2E8C AT earthlink DOT net>, rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net 
says...
>
>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.

Big Deal. So people will create DOS emulators that'll run under Microsoft's 
latest crapware. 

The fact is Microsoft will never be able to kill off DOS, no matter how hard 
they and their dim-witted supporters like yourself try to.