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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:25:11 +1200, "Edmund Horner"
<ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote:

>Where does DJGPP go in the future?  (I guess that it will continue to follow
>the direction of gcc, such as support for more languages.  But what else?)
>Will DJGPP become too tied to ye olde DOS to remain of use?

And you say "ye olde DOS" will be disappearing anytime soon?  It's
still a popular simple, realtime OS for embedded systems:
  http://www.drdos.com/
And for small systems that don't have the computrons for Linux:
  http://www.drdos.org/

>What is there for non-contributors like myself to do to participate?

Use DJGPP.  Push DJGPP.  Release the stuff you do with DJGPP as free
software.  It's a way to get newbie hackers hooked on GNU tools rather
than M$ tools.

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