From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: FreeDOS (was: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:41:05 -0300
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walt121 AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:

> In article <19990425102731 DOT 12164 DOT 00001499 AT ng-fy1 DOT aol DOT com>,
>   fffan08 AT aol DOT com (FF fan 08) wrote:
> > I thought Windows 2000 was supposed to be an upgrade for Windows NT, not
> > Windows 98.
> The last I heard, Win2000 is NT5, but is also replacing Win9x.  Win9x has DOS
> support and allows 16-bit applications (Win 3.x) to run also.  With Win2000,
> consumers have to upgrade their old 16-bit and DOS apps.  Since M$ is a leader
> in app software, that's more $ for M$.

    There was a semi-recent announcement that M$ would realease a new version of
Win98 this fall (They didn't say whether they would change the name) and would
keep the residential version of the OS separate from the corporate version.
Win2000 is NT5, but there may also be another version of Win2000 for consumers
(not based off of NT5).

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