From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:56:42 GMT, Rez
<rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:

>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.

Currently, I use a similar technique with Windows 98.  If I will be
doing hard-core DOS action, I pick "Command prompt only" so that my
sound card will not crackle horribly.  But with Windows ME, it seems
I will have to reformat and repartition my hard drive to get several
boot partitions below 32 MB.

>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 :)

This has been CCed to Microsoft's suggestion box:
  mailto:mswish AT microsoft DOT com

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