X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to opendos-bounces using -f To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:38:19 -0800 Subject: Re: configuring sound card Message-ID: <20011212.233822.-458117.2.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-19,21-43 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I am checking with my daughter, who works at IBM. I don't recall specifically when I heard/read about this, but it was back in 1998 or 1999. I was trying to find a copy of PCDOS 7 in the stores and no-one was selling it. At Comp USA one of the clerks told me it was no longer being distributed, or at least they could not order it. Somewhere I read that they were dropping all further development on PCDOS and concentrating on OS2 WARP 4, and that one of the reasons was payments to M$ and the other was the decline in demand for DOS, as Windows became more popular. Of course they did release PCDOS 2000, but AFAIK it was only available on the Web site and never sold in stores, and I never heard of it being installed on any OEM PC's, at least not around here in California. PCDOS 2000 was only supposed to have a few minor improvements related to Y2K. I did not even know about it's existence until someone on the list mentioned it. As soon as I get some more definitive info I'll let you know. BOB ' DOMAN ' MOSS On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:58:13 +0100 "Matthias Paul" writes: > On 2001-12-06, Robert W Moss wrote: > > >> IBM probably won't be able to provide any patch for DOS, since > >> they made a deal with M$ not to do any more work on DOS after > >> PCDOS 2000. > > I havenīt heard this one yet. Bob, is this just your opinion or > do you have some reliable source of info about this? I would be > interested in better details if you can provide them. Thanks. > > Greetings, > > Matthias > > -- > > ; > http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org > > > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.