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Re: WIN XP

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 21, 2001
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J L writes:
> What will happen to Euphoria when Windows XP comes out. 
> I have heard that DOS programs will be unable to run under the 
> new OS, and even older WIN apps will have a tougher time with it. 
> Are my wories justified?. Will there be a special version for XP?

The rumors of the death of DOS have been, as usual,
greatly exaggerated. Microsoft likes to fuel these rumours
in the news media, since DOS still competes in a small
way with Windows, and they'd love to see it die, but they
don't have the guts to kill it.
Check out:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_foundations.asp

"Microsoft has gotten Sound Blaster-compatible sound working 
in DOS boxes under Windows XP. You can play games like 
DOOM and Castle Wolfenstein in Windows XP, either 
full screen or in a window."

DOOM is written in WATCOM C for DOS, just like
the DOS version of Euphoria.

RDS has no plans of discontinuing Euphoria for DOS.
If there are things we can do to make it work better on XP
we will do them. 

I don't expect the Windows version of
Euphoria to be affected much by XP,
and of course the Linux version will not be 
affected at all.  

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com