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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:56:42 GMT
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Windows ME (Millennium Edition), the third major release of Windows
> 9x, has NO SUPPORT for DOS apps.  We DOS programmers have just lost
> our market:
> http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3715-7-1648259.html?tag=st.sw.3715-7-1648258.txt.3715-7-1648259

<first response censored by the Committee to Prevent Network Meltdown>

You know, instead of KILLING DOS entirely, what they should do is by
default install a dual boot with the "other" boot being pure DOS. Then
Windows could be free of real mode code (since this seems to be their
objective), and users who need DOS could still use it without having to
thrash around with a boot disk that may or may not work, and without
having to hunt for another dual boot util that is guaranteed to work
with WinMe (that's almost as good as WinCE :)

~REZ~

... I will give up DOS when they pry 
    my cold dead computer from around it!