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Article #785Re: DOS is dead.
From: Paul S Secinaro
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:56
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:56
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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. [...] > >That leaves DOS only running on 8088s and 80286's. These machines >will be worth very little and so will be purchased by people on tight >budgets (or donated to nonprofits, etc). There will be not much >money to spend on software. But of course, we know the cost of >software development is not going down like hardware costs. Unfortunately, Microsoft is rumored to be coming out with a 32-bit version of DOS. The rationale behind this is beyond my comprehension. I mean, if it's 32-bit, it won't be backwards compatible with conventional MS-DOS anyway, so why not just stick with Windows (or other OS'es) running DOS emulators? Paul -- Paul Secinaro | Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab pss1@kepler.unh.edu | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering p_secinaro@unhh.unh.edu | University of New Hampshire
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nic.unh.edu!kepler.unh.edu!pss1 From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) Subject: Re: DOS is dead. Message-ID: <1992Apr16.115655.1283@nic.unh.edu> Sender: news@nic.unh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH References: <703214134snx@crynwr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:56:55 GMT Lines: 26