From: werner_heine AT amper DOT m DOT isar DOT de (Werner Heine) Date: 09 Sep 99 07:14:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: WARNING: DOS is about to die. Message-ID: <8ba_9909100600@amper.m.isar.de> References: <7quo1t$94k$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <7quqfr$sr4 AT acme DOT freenet DOT columbus DOT oh DOT us> <37D35CDF DOT 4317 AT earthlink DOT net> <022eeae0 DOT e55837f4 AT usw-ex0102-011 DOT remarq DOT com> <37D5E630 DOT 660CC961 AT unb DOT ca> X-FTN-To: Endlisnis Organization: AmperNet: !!! MS-DOS IST SCHNELL !!! Lines: 34 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hallo Endlisnis, 08 Sep 99 05:30, Endlisnis wrote to All: >> Right, and why has Windows become the most popular operating system >> / GUI in the world? One word: marketing. If it hadn't been for >> Microsoft furiously plugging its products, we might see a lot more >> use of things like MacOS, OS/2 and Linux. E> I don't think it is really exclusively marketing. Be shure: It is! There is NO other reason. Everybody knows, that he only buy bugs by buying a M$ product and must pay another time to get a service pack which wil repair one of the bugs by leaving 10 others. Why buy all this fools Gates-Ware? >> And does anyone really believe Microsoft will not provide, at least >> at a basic level, some support for DOS? "some support for DOS" ist not enough. WIN-NT has a nearly complete incompatible DOS-Box. So it's impossible to run small, fast and stabile DOS- Applications under WIN-NT. This is one of the reasons, I prefer OS/2 instead of WIN-NT. ciao Werner -- |Fidonet: Werner Heine 49:808/6.1 |Internet: werner_heine AT amper DOT m DOT isar DOT de | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.