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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: leger_v AT bluewin DOT ch, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:53:52 +0000
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Subject: Re: DOS vs WIN95
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leger_v AT bluewin DOT ch wrote:

> I have a very big question.
> Do you think it's still possible to do a commercial product
> under DOS and not under WIN95. I have an old 486/dx2 66 and most
> of my friends have bought a recent computer like pentium 266 MMX.
> I've often asked myself if I could write a commercial program under
> DOS, now, in 1998. What do you think ? Should I give up to do that
> program and write it only for me under the DOS of my old and slow
> computer ?

It depends on the kind of program you want to write and the market you want to 
reach.
If you want to create a program to be used by thousands of users and you spect 
to put it in a 100,000,000 people market, then just forget about DOS, buy a 
Pentium II 400 MHz, a Voodoo II equiped video board and develope for Windows 
98, even more, if your program will be finished in 18 months or more, develope 
for NT because Windows 95/98 will die by the end of the century.
Now if you want to do a program for an specific task or to be used by less 
people or without expecting money for it I think you have better choices than 
Windows. 

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