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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: "Hilton Fernandes" <hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:00:12 +0000
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Subject: Re: The is world dropping MS-DOS.  What about DJGPP? (Was Re: Q
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"Hilton Fernandes" <hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com> wrote:

> The discussion about Quake II was an irresistible plug to a question
> that i wanted to ask a long time ago.
> 
> DJGPP is the best and most complete implementation of GNU tools
> outside UNIX.  It is a development environment so good that even its
> newsgroup is nice, full of kind and generous persons.
Don't forget that Cygnus is advancing in your port of the GNU tools to Win32 
enviroments. Perhaps isn't so complet or coherent like DJGPP but exists and 
last time I saw it was growing.

> However, a terrible ghost is getting closer to this technical
> treasure: slowly but firmly Microsoft is managing to bring MS-DOS
> into oblivion.  And the new incarnations of its operating systems --
> Win NT and Win 98 -- seem to make increasingly difficult the
> execution of MS-DOS programs.
Well M$ is clearly trying to destroy the market making it only for Windows. 
They have a huge success with all the components finished with "X" (in my 
country say that somebody is making to you an "X" is like say that he is making 
a "cross" to you, or more cleare trying to kill you). 
So you must look in other "X" things like LinuX ;-)

> So, the question is: where will the legacy of djgpp go when MS-DOS is
> finished?  What should be the plan?  Try to migrate to OpenDOS? 
There is no need for it DOS 6 exists. Of course the people can use OpenDOS and 
if Caldera agrees distribute some reduced version of OpenDOS with the DJGPP 
applications.

> This is a sad but important question to all of djgpp community.

The people can make a lot of things. There are a lot of choices. You can 
migrate to Linux for example.
The point is that DJGPP will be used for things where Loose 2000 won't feet.

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