From:	bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (Bernard P. Murray, PhD)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date:	Tue, 06 Apr 1999 14:42:23 -0700
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In article <000401be8001$442d61a0$af52989e AT default>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:

> It is fairly clear to me that MS are trying to break the DOS platform. Some
> of my DOS apps don't run under the emulator they've installed into NT. I
> have loads of DOS software which I like using and I don't fancy losing that
> just to suit the upgrade demands of a company who doesn't care about the
> people who use their software...

...then don't use their software.

> Arron Shutt

You'll just have to get used to this.  The latest betas of NT
can currently run only about 40% of *Windows* software.  So,
when NT becomes compulsory you'll have to buy new versions
of everything.  I don't think that this is accidental...
     Bernard
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Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA

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