Yes very true !
In fact I use Windows2k myself but on my older PCs still use DOS anyway
At 10:50 PM 10/2/00 +0200, you wrote:
>I found this interesting text in the 1batfaq.txt file found in the
>tsbat62 archive by prof. Timo Salmi (date 22 sep -00).
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>90. Isn't MS-DOS dead with W2K? So why bother with MS-DOS batches?
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>Good question, but why would that be the case? The _relative_ number
>of Windows 2000 users is likely to grow drastically. But if history
>is anything to go by, the _absolute_ number of MS-DOS users will not
>go down, maybe even the contrary. The old PC base is just too large.
>This is corroborated by the observation that e.g. Garbo archive's
>MS-DOS section downloads are level or higher than ever before,
>despite everything that has happened on the PC / Windows scene.
>There are from 2000 up to 10000 MS-DOS related downloads from Garbo
>MS-DOS archives each and every day. That's still far from dead even
>if it is obvious that some quarters actively try to bury it.
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