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Subject:	Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
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Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:53:19 GMT
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"Outsider (6.22/3.11)" wrote:

> Trancelucid wrote:
> >
> > It's been quite a while that MS announced Millenium as their last Win9x
> > kernel.. but I find ironic people freaking out saying DOS is gonna die
> > when MS releases a new version... In no way we are obligated to buy each
> > and every release of their software..
> Not everyone is so fortunate. Most people are forced to use
> whatever their employer forces onto them; usually the latest
> MS offerings.

    Well, I would say that most employers never made the jump to Win98,
they've already jumped to NT if they aren't using 95 anymore.

    The only things that don't work under NT are SVGA and LFN's (the latter of
which could be fixed, but not trivially).  If LFN's are no longer available,
DJGPP _might_ decide to stop supporting them and just use the 8.3 standard to
make it work under Win2xxx or whatever.  Besides that, who uses Allegro at
work anyways?  Allegro is mostly a game programming language, and I doubt most
people here are using Allegro at work to program games, and if they are, then
their employer will likely stay with a platform that supports development of
DOS games.


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