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ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>>In article <703214134snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) says:
>>>
>>>DOS is dead.  (At most) A year from now no one will be programming for MS-DOS.

>FYI -- the last time I looked there were ~ 60 million PCs
>in the world.  Mediocresoft had sold 9 million copies of Windows.
>Surveys show 25% of all Windows-buyers boot windows.

>So of 60 million PCs you have 2.5 million booting Windows.
>Roughly 1 million are booting Unix.

>What are the rest doing?  QDOS.

>        -ans.

I think Russ's point is that people will stop buying DOS in favor of a
real operating system, be it OS/2, UNIX, or NT.  I would not be so 
optimistic about DOS's demise tho.  Maybe 2-3 years and most development
for DOS-based platforms will stop.

Just my $.02 :)

-Mark

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