From: "Darrell R." Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:01:46 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 48 Message-ID: <7r1o6e$du4$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <7quo1t$94k$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <3fc5848e DOT b13f0af5 AT usw-ex0106-043 DOT remarq DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: everglades-49.slip.uiuc.edu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Well, Dos shells within Windows could disappear, but I don't think that would affect the status of Dos itself much. PC users have gotten very used to rebooting their machines to swap between OSes. For myself, it's all the more reason to learn and use DjGpp now. My programming is for simple tasks or for learning, and programming Djgpp under DOS allows for a good transition to Gcc under unix, particularly Linux. Dos won't die without Microsoft, especially with the freely available versions that work fine--I would think what would kill Dos as a platform would be large changes in standard Intel hardware that would require major changes to Dos (like non-VGA video cards). I could then see Dos splintering up into versions that different groups would individually have to support, without a standard. Linux to the rescue. Linux is everywhere and will continue to be. For every OS currently out there, every additional day it is actively used it must add about 3 months to it's total life. These changes occur very slowly. Darrell -- // Darrell Rudmann, drudmann AT nyx DOT net // Urbana, IL, USA /* Spam-blocking in effect: Please include the word 'astro' somewhere in the subject line in e-mailed replies. */ Varence wrote in message news:3fc5848e DOT b13f0af5 AT usw-ex0106-043 DOT remarq DOT com... > > Actually, I read this comment somewhere too, not on the > web either, but in a PC networking magazine. I don't > recall the exact nature of the article (it wasn't > specifically about DOS or anything), but it had something > about windows no longer providing a DOS shell or such in > it's next incarnation. > While it could just be a rumour/consideration, it may > also be a fact of life that OS's are moving on and dos > shells won't be going with them. > > Varence > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * > The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free! >