From: "Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:39:10 -0500
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RUMOR that may have quite a bit of fact to it:

Windows Millennium is Micr0$oft's last 9x kernel based Windows version. I
have heard rumors that Micr0$oft will be switching to an NT kernel with its
inferior DOS box. So how will DOS tools such as DJGPP, Allegro, etc.
continue to survive?