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- From: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin R. Christmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: New version of DOS coming out? (NOOO!! Anything but *that*!)
- Message-ID: <76882@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:50:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.153134.11068@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- Reply-To: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin R. Christmann)
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- In article <1992Jul28.153134.11068@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>,
- darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
- |>From the "Late News" section of PC Week, dated July 27, 1992, p.142:
- |>
- |> Microsoft Readies New Version of DOS
- |> Microsoft plans to begin beta testing a new version of DOS in August,
- |> sources said last week. The version, planned for final delivery in the
- |> first half of 1993, will include new and enhanced utilities, not
- |> all of which will be in the first beta, they said.
- |>
- |> Microsoft Vice President Brad Silverberg last week declined to
- |> confirm specific features, but said the "first version [of MS-DOS] that
- |> will come out is oriented toward solving particular end-user
- |> needs."
-
- You know, news like this makes me believe more and more that that faster-than-
- lightspeed travel (a la Star Trek) will be developed before DOS dies. In fact,
- it kind of reminds me of Apple's failed "Apple II forever" strategy right
- around the time the IIgs came out, which, unfortunately for Apple II people,
- was right around the time the Mac really started to take off.
-
- Thanx, | Team OS/2 | Internet: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
- Dustin R. Christmann | (I was there) | Bitnet: DRXMANN@UTXVM
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