From: bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (Bernard P. Murray, PhD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:44:12 -0700
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In article <6y0O2.2463$MB3 DOT 4117 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com>, "Johan Venter"
<jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote:

> I just got to say, this thread is scary. I never even thought of the
> possibility that when microsoft leave DOS behind permanently, it will be
> difficult to keep DJGPP alive. I, for one, will stick with DJGPP till the
> end (which is, hopefully, not too soon), and if microsoft stop supporting
> DOS altogether then we, as the users of DJGPP will be the renegade computer
> users that microsoft fights to aboloish.

If you believe what Microsoft is saying then they are not going to
kill DOS just yet;

http://www.maximumpcmag.com/inside_sources/99.4/99.4.7.phtml#DOSIsNotDeadReally

...however in the same article they also mumble (*AGAIN*) that
they might make Windows Open Source.  They also claim that
64bit Windows works a lot better than 32bit in their hands
(despite the fact that independent testers at Intel have
found that it runs *slower*).

     ...pass the grain of salt please.
          Bernard
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Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA