Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/07/15:34:20
At 02:42 PM 4/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>In article <000401be8001$442d61a0$af52989e AT default>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>
>> It is fairly clear to me that MS are trying to break the DOS platform. Some
>> of my DOS apps don't run under the emulator they've installed into NT. I
>> have loads of DOS software which I like using and I don't fancy losing that
>> just to suit the upgrade demands of a company who doesn't care about the
>> people who use their software...
>
>...then don't use their software.
>
>> Arron Shutt
>
>You'll just have to get used to this. The latest betas of NT
>can currently run only about 40% of *Windows* software. So,
>when NT becomes compulsory you'll have to buy new versions
>of everything. I don't think that this is accidental...
> Bernard
>--
>Bernard P. Murray, PhD
>Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA
With plenty of hard drive space to spare won't it be possible to
have both the old Windows and the new NT installed--or will
MS detect this and not allow it?. I assume using the same
partition and drive.
A sad state of affairs if much of the old MS software will have
to be replaced!!!!!
Ralph
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