🚀 go-pugleaf

komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) writes:

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

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

>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.

There is a big difference between use of MS/DOS and development for MS/DOS.
The former will go on forever, in one form or another (Yes, folks,
believe it or not, in this day and age of automatic washing machines and
laundromats, there are still people who wash their clothes by hand.  In
many parts of the world [so I'm told], there are people who wash their
clothes on a rock)  The later may well die out simply because all of the
problems have been solved.

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	"Speaks the man who swears by his 1985 terminal program.  As far
	as I'm concerned, that problem is solved.  Has been for lo these
	7 years [to steal a line from Dickens].  In fact, yesterday was
	the 7th aniversery of my terminal program..."
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