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Re:Flutter desktop shells by cwyers on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:33PM (#19751155)
There is no sense in which MS-DOS died in 2000.
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Re:Flutter desktop shells by japanoise on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:21PM (#19752626)
Wikipedia lists the last release of MS-DOS as version 8.0 in 2000, linking to the page for Windows ME.

This is what the comments above were alluding to, a "final release" before the project is abandoned. Installations still continue, in the same way there's probably places still doing the books on a C64, but it's no longer supported.

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Re:Flutter desktop shells by coldtea on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:38PM (#19751214)
I guess the parent means when (NT-Kernel based) Windows XP replaced Windows ME, which was the last version to run on top of MS-DOS (iirc).
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