From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
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Chris Lee wrote:

..after Rez reported..
>>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.
> 
> Big Deal. So people will create DOS emulators that'll run under Microsoft's
> latest crapware.

One hopes so. But emulators are seldom perfect solutions. Run into one
of those ATX boxes yet that can only do a shutdown under Win98 and can't
dual-boot? I have. What a PITA.

>The fact is Microsoft will never be able to kill off DOS, no matter how hard
> they and their dim-witted supporters like yourself try to.

Excuse me? I'm not a "supporter"; I merely reported (firsthand, NOT some
3rdhand rumour) what M$ themselves said. I go to their seminars to find
out what they're up to (ignorance of the competition is a great way to
wind up trampled), since I have clients who are heavily into M$ products
(I use some, but I use a lot more other stuff -- I have one Word lic.
and 14 WordPerfect licenses -- what's really funny is that all my M$
stuff is legal and registered to me, and I didn't pay a cent for any of
it), and because I see no reason to cough up $250 for a technet sub or
$25 for an NT service pack (or whatever the charge is now) when they
give away the quarterly CDs and current SPs at these free local
seminars.

And you seem to have neglected to read my tagline, which I shall here
reproduce for your elucidation.

~REZ~

...I'll give up DOS when they pry my cold dead computer from around it!