1. Will the programmed death of DOS affect EX's use?
Hi!
IMAB (I am a beginner) For users of EFL (English as a Foreign Language), the
many shorthands used in the mail are an additional challenge. Not an
unpleasant one, I'd say, but I miss a good many of them.
I am not hostile to MS, nor to qBasic. The death of DOS is now on the wall,
as formerly the CP/M, and what I need is a substitute to qBasic that is
cheap or free and with no professional pretention. I see no personal
necessity for a GUI : I am now learning EX in David Alan Gay's excellent
ABGTE2.
My question is: shall EX still work in a future environment devoid of DOS
such as Windows Millenium, or am I entering a dead end track?
Thanks for the bit of your time devoted to my question.
Epondi Punga
2. Re: Will the programmed death of DOS affect EX's use?
Alain Sellier writes:
> My question is: shall EX still work in a future environment
> devoid of DOS such as Windows Millenium, or am
> I entering a dead end track?
Junko reports that she is happily using the Euphoria editor,
ex ed.ex , and other Euphoria for DOS programs on
Windows 2000 (the latest Windows NT just released).
As for Windows Millennium Edition (Me), the follow-on
to Windows 98, I found this on a Windows Millennium FAQ
site (sorry I lost the URL). It was updated in February 2000.
... From Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows:
Q: I heard that Windows Me would not use DOS as its base
and would, in fact, be a full 32-bit operating system like
Windows NT. Is this true?
A: No. Windows Millennium Edition, like Windows 95 and
Windows 98 before it, is based on DOS and is therefore
a 16/32-bit operating system. Microsoft is doing what it can
to hide the MS-DOS prompt in Windows Me in an effort to simplify
the OS, but DOS is as fully entrenched in Windows Me
as it was in earlier versions of Windows 9x.
Q: So will my DOS games like DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D still run in
Millennium?
A: Yes, absolutely. Every DOS game should run in Windows Me.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
3. Re: Will the programmed death of DOS affect EX's use?
Personally, I think DOS is still alive. Millions of people use command line
interfaces of other OS's like Unix and Linux, so why not DOS?
