From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS. Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <0vlffsc21hthnqfaramn08d9gb9jfk5v74@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 X-Trace: /bNDC2sSPpCzbOfptZSN0GaUJXza4JHS/lVo8OWEXuLgH0jXx7JeDu1iBs8wzSEkAM2amdfX1/Bc!G2r4oDbrE6a6lMqOpugM0FP+x0hvx5Vo6sXkhJWBkMNf6UfPksp4GrgUjASwUw6icQtYiJKytcH3!y+tMAFg= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:54:02 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:54:03 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Windows ME (Millennium Edition), the third major release of Windows 9x, has NO SUPPORT for DOS apps. We DOS programmers have just lost our market: http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3715-7-1648259.html?tag=st.sw.3715-7-1648258.txt.3715-7-1648259 >Finally, Microsoft has dumped Real Mode. This vestigial code makes >Windows 95/98 work with some older DOS apps, but it also makes >Windows slower and less stable at start-up. Microsoft says that DOS >apps without native Windows support have gone the way of the >dinosaurs, rendering Real Mode unnecessary. Real Mode is necessary to load even Protected Mode DOS apps (such as anything made with DJGPP). >So the company has thrown it out, sending some crashes along with >it, we hope. Micro$~1 misunderstands the source of the crashes. Crashes come when applications' installers "update" critical system DLLs (e.g. the kernel) with their own "enhanced" versions. Just look at AOL 5 for an example: http://www.anti-aol.org/ news:alt.aol-sucks >If you need to run an old DOS app, you'll have to boot up using a >Windows ME boot disk that retains the DOS boot option. I certainly hope the hard drive can be used as such a boot disk. -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/