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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:38:19 -0800
Subject:	Re: configuring sound card
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

I am checking with my daughter, who works at IBM.  I don't recall 
specifically when I heard/read about this, but it was back in 1998 
or 1999.  I was trying to find a copy of PCDOS 7 in the stores and 
no-one was selling it.  At Comp USA one of the clerks told me it 
was no longer being distributed, or at least they could not order it. 
Somewhere I read that they were dropping all further development 
on PCDOS and concentrating on OS2 WARP 4, and that one of the 
reasons was payments to M$ and the other was the decline in 
demand for DOS, as Windows became more popular.  Of course 
they did release PCDOS 2000, but AFAIK it was only available on 
the Web site and never sold in stores, and I never heard of it being 
installed on any OEM PC's, at least not around here in California.  
PCDOS 2000 was only supposed to have a few minor improvements 
related to Y2K.  I did not even know about it's existence until someone 
on the list mentioned it.  
 
As soon as I get some more definitive info I'll let you know.  

BOB ' DOMAN ' MOSS  

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:58:13 +0100 "Matthias Paul"
<Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> writes:
> On 2001-12-06, Robert W Moss wrote:
> 
> >> IBM probably won't be able to provide any patch for DOS, since
> >> they made a deal with M$ not to do any more work on DOS after
> >> PCDOS 2000.
> 
> I haven´t heard this one yet. Bob, is this just your opinion or
> do you have some reliable source of info about this? I would be
> interested in better details if you can provide them. Thanks.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>  Matthias
> 
> -- 
> 
> <mailto:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>; <mailto:mpaul AT drdos DOT org>
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org
> 
> 
> 
> 

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