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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
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Rez wrote:

> 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.

    Does that mean that they aren't going to support the Win32 console
programs?  I suppose they also say that they aren't going to support 16-bit
programs either?  Might as well abandon all support of anything mildly linked
to Win3.1/DOS.


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