From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:45:57 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>> RUMOR that may have quite a bit of fact to it:
>>Windows Millennium is Micr0$oft's last 9x kernel based Windows version.
> 
> Don't believe in rumors, particularly in this one.  This rumor, or its
> many varieties, has been around for at least 10 years, since we heard
> that DOS 4.0 will be the last DOS version.

This time it isn't exactly a rumour. "There will no longer be any DOS of
any description, including the DOS box" or words to that direct effect
were part of the M$ rep's promotional spiel on WinBalls^H^H^H^H^H 2000
at a M$ Technet seminar I attended back about April or so.

~REZ~