From: "Chris La Mantia" <lamantia AT gte DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The is world dropping MS-DOS.  What about DJGPP? (Was Re: Quake
Date: 11 Aug 1997 14:35:42 GMT
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Hilton Fernandes <hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com> wrote in article
<199708110648 DOT XAA00242 AT geocities DOT com>...
> Hi!
> 
> 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? 
> 
> This is a sad but important question to all of djgpp community.

Haven't we been hearing about the "imminent" death of DOS for about five
years now?

At this point, there are still far more DOS-based machines than Windows NT
based machines (and yes, Virginia, a Windows 95 machine is a DOS-based
machine).  Although it is possible that within a couple of years there may
be no _new_ DOS machines shipping (at least until people rip NT off the
hard drive and upgrade it to OpenDOS), the installed base is much slower to
upgrade.

I certainly don't see DJGPP going away in the near future.

--Chris
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