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From: Timo Salmi
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:03

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In article <1992Apr16.115655.1283@nic.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>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?

Perhaps because of the postential 50 milloin users (suckers? :-)
instead of the few millions.

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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
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Subject: Re: DOS is dead.
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