From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:37:35 GMT
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:37:35 GMT
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:05:06 +0100, "Thomas Harte"
<T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT DELETE_HERE> wrote:

>smile773 wrote in message
><24dK4.9179$WF DOT 501644 AT bgtnsc04-news DOT ops DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net>...
>>however the idea that linux will eventually have a better backwards
>>compatable protected mode dos shell and utilities is possible.
>
>That's a point, shouldn't DOSEMU be compilable (with small alterations)
>under Cygnus or something? There is a win32 console mode, after all.

DOSEMU is GPL compatible, right?  The POSIX library in Cygwin (a 4 MB
DLL) has a GPL stub library.

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