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Subject: Re: The is world dropping MS-DOS.  What about DJGPP? (Was Re: Quake
Date: 11 Aug 1997 21:51:40 GMT
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In article <199708110648 DOT XAA00242 AT geocities DOT com>, 
hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com says...
>
>Hi!
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.

Actually, you're wrong about this. There are millions of computers that will
never run Win95,Win98,or Win NT for one reason or another. These are the 
machines that software written using djgpp will thrive on. Personally, I 
have no use for Win95, and abolutely no reason to run out and buy Win NT.

I suspect a heck of a lot of people fall into this catagory.

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