[CQ-Contest] Future for DOS programs

[AnthonyScandurra at FirstUSA.com]

Dave,

There are a few discrepancies in your note. Edit and the DOS shell DO
exist in Win95. DOS 7 is most definitely DOS. That is one of the
shortcomings of Win95. Microsoft bent over backward to make sure W95
would be compatible with as many DOS programs as possible. While support
for DOS programs certainly will not go on for ever, it will continue for
quite some time. There are WAY too many DOS programs still in use for
Microsoft to even THINK about dumping DOS support for a LONG time. Even
WinNT runs DOS programs!!!

I am no advocate of DOS or Windows, but the market will dictate what
Microsoft will have to do to satisfy its customers.

Anthony Scandurra - KG2MY
UNIX System Administrator - FileNET Systems
Phone: (302)434-7655
Fax: (302)594-4020
Email: AnthonyScandurra at FirstUSA.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David L. Thompson [SMTP:thompson at mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, January 17, 1998 10:13 PM
> To:	cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject:	[CQ-Contest] Future for DOS programs
> 
> Trey's note on running CT/TR et al on W95 machines made me a remember
> a
> conversation I had just after new years with an associate.  The
> associate
> is an advocate of DOS, but is now repeating the chilling news about
> the
> future of DOS programs under W95 and especially 98.
> 
> DOS 7 is really not DOS but the underlying bootstrap for W95.  Many of
> the
> old DOS commands (edit and dos shell for example) are gone.  According
> to
> the micro soft technicans he spoke with in order to run DOS programs
> under
> W95 you probably will need to keep a separate version of DOS 6.0+.
> Micro
> Soft is just as strong on eliminating DOS as they are in not
> supporting old
> versions.  My associate gave two examples:  Try reading a Word for
> Windows 2
> document in Word 7 (Office 7 or 97).  Unless you have Office 4.3 or 6
> (WORD
> 6)as an interim step you can't!!!  Powerpoint only reads current
> version
> documents.  And micro soft does not even provide conversion.
> 
> Altho you can find ways to run DOS programs under W95 and W NT this
> will
> certainly end.....beware!!!!  Please guys lets get W95 programs on the
> market...I like Logic for windows but don't want to use it in the
> contests.
> 
> Dave K4JRB  
> 
> 
> 
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