On 5/11/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Todd Walton as of Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:31:37AM -0700: > > An InformationWeek article says that, with the 64-bit version of > > Windows, there will be no DOS (which they've already dropped with XP) > > and no 32-bit apps. Specifically: > > How many times have they dropped DOS, honestly, really, we mean it?
Oh. Just realized I said "32" above; I should have said "16". As for dropping DOS, they dropped it with XP, I thought. And with the replacement command line environment, they actually added a few useful features. > But I don't think the break will necessarily mean they're going to fix > the broken things. They're just going to drop the less lucrative bits. I disagree. I think roses will spontaneously bloom and cause all the peoples of the world to join hands and sing. Except maybe you, Stewart. -todd, not above his own harumphing -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
