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From: garyt@ios.Convergent.COM (Gary Tse)
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Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
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Date: 13 Dec 90 03:29:19 GMT
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gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) writes:
|The longer DOS lasts in its current
|form, the more applications people will purchase for it (the more
|money they will have invested in software versus "the box".)  
|
|So those same people are going to look at their piles of applications
|and consider this new and wonderful DOS and say "so what".  

Gee, does anyone here still remember CP/M or Apple DOS?

-- 
Gary Tse,    garyt@ios.Convergent.COM || ..!pyramid!ctnews!ios!garyt
	        tse@soda.Berkeley.EDU || ..!ucbvax!soda!tse
               "What can you say about a society that says God is 
                dead and Elvis is alive?"  -- Irv Kupcinet