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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:03:08 GMT, PaulCsouls
<paulcsouls AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote::

>Microsoft has announced ending its upport for Win98. Is this the end
>of DOS?
>
>Paul

Maybe for win98SE.  Win98 support ended almost a year ago.  If you
don't believe, me, just try and install Mediaplayer9 on win98.  It
will install fine on 98SE.

As far as DOS goes, until MS decides to go to a Unix based command
line, it's likely that the MS command line will be based on DOS
syntax.  For DOS as a stand-alone OS, it's pretty much become a fringe
OS.  There's the FreeDOS project, which will keep DOS support going
for a while, and I there are probably a lot of businesses out there
that still use DOS based applications -- where the Y2k bug was either
fixed, or just didn't apply.

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Thanks,
MCheu

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