Mail Archives: djgpp/2007/04/25/04:11:17
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| From: | Sterten AT aol DOT com
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| Date: | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:10:04 EDT
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| Subject: | Re: no DPMI memory under Windows vista
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but can't we just include some old platform to support the old DOS-programs=20=
?
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switch from Vista back to an XP-like-cmd.exe and then back to Vista on exit
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Even if you -maybe- could easily write Vista-programs from now on,
old programs from decades of DOS-programming would be lost !
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Thousands of hours of programming, research, old papers and references
can't be verified etc.
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