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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 05:30:33 GMT
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Dan Gold wrote:

>      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.

    Games are not the only thing done on computers...  I find game writing a
lot more fun than game playing these days.

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