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To: J R KARY who wrote (3159)	5/27/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) of 8218

IBM's new YK2 DOS - 150 million copies @ $60/copy ? Business users doing accounting are mostly DOS based : " IBM introduced a new version ... of DOS that eliminates year 2000-related problems in the venerable operating system and offers a path for businesses to consolidate older DOS versions from Microsoft and Novell, as well as IBM. " techweb.com World wide opportunity and MSFT is due in DOJ Court 9/8/98 . " PC DOS 2000 automatically corrects the dates associated with the Basic Input/Output System in many older desktop systems... It also supports the European Monetary Union's currency symbol - a management headache that plagues European businesses even more than the year 2000 problem. ... there are between 120 million and 150 million people still using DOS on their desktop machines. "... about half of those are business users," ... That figure doesn't include users of Microsoft's Windows 3.1, ... Said Robert Rapuano, DOS development manager at IBM: "We've had customers with problems in applications stacks that involved older versions of DOS, but no one has tested the old Microsoft or Novell versions." Hope IBM makes it easy for folks to buy this baby and partner with some interested UNIX vendors that host DOS efficiently . Jim K.

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