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From: groothuis e
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:23

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In article <703214134snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>DOS is dead.  (At most) A year from now no one will be programming for MS-DOS.
[..some opinions deleted..]
I don't share your opinion... I believe that as long as Microsoft and/or
Digital Research supports MSDOS cq. DRDOS it will stay alive... Yes,
you're right to say that faster machines are going to use Windows oslt.,
but there are a lot of people who a. Don't have a 386+, b. Don't want to
spent that much money on a shell on msdos.
I somewhere believe that dos will go the same was as unix... 

When Microsoft launched windows 3.x as a Operating System (and not as a
Operating Shell), it would have killed MSDOS (and maybe OS/2) faster...
But you need MSDOS to start Windows, so...

>-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!

edwin groothuis
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Subject: Re: DOS is dead.
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