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From:	"Dan Gold" <TedMat AT CoastNet DOT com>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 02:00:55 -0700
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     This is the longest thread I have ever seen!  Its the kind that will
never have a definite answer.

     What do you mean "about to die"? DOS is already dead in many ways.  It
is not a viable commercial game platform in most cases.  Plus it will never
support much hardware acceleration which will be the corner stone of almost
every game in afew years.  There is also little you can do to make
multiplayer net games possible in DOS.  That is not why people use DOS
anyway, if the average computer user never learns how to use DOS it doesn't
bother me.  It has been unused by alot of people for a long time and there
are alot of people who sadly cannot use DOS or a command prompt at all
because all they know is how to click a mouse and think that typing is
obsolete.  As long as people find a reason to boot into DOS it will never
die.  If DOS becomes an OS that is only used by hobbiest programmers, a
learning tool for programmers or an escape from the GUI world, that is all
the better to me, there is alot of software and utils for DOS still being
made and used.  I will never stop using DOS, and hopefully DOS and DOS
programs will still mature even thouugh it is cut off from alot new
technologies.  

Thanks for reading...
from ((--Dan|Gold--))...

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