Message-Id: <199909072059.QAA29209@delorie.com> From: "Dan Gold" To: Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 02:00:55 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is the longest thread I have ever seen! Its the kind that will never have a definite answer. What do you mean "about to die"? DOS is already dead in many ways. It is not a viable commercial game platform in most cases. Plus it will never support much hardware acceleration which will be the corner stone of almost every game in afew years. There is also little you can do to make multiplayer net games possible in DOS. That is not why people use DOS anyway, if the average computer user never learns how to use DOS it doesn't bother me. It has been unused by alot of people for a long time and there are alot of people who sadly cannot use DOS or a command prompt at all because all they know is how to click a mouse and think that typing is obsolete. As long as people find a reason to boot into DOS it will never die. If DOS becomes an OS that is only used by hobbiest programmers, a learning tool for programmers or an escape from the GUI world, that is all the better to me, there is alot of software and utils for DOS still being made and used. I will never stop using DOS, and hopefully DOS and DOS programs will still mature even thouugh it is cut off from alot new technologies. Thanks for reading... from ((--Dan|Gold--))...