From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Win 2000 & DJGPP
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 14:06:40 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000109100929 DOT 23866j-100000 AT is>...
>
>On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> "John & Susie" <jdk AT sgi DOT net> wrote:
>> > This may be a dumb question and I know its not officially released yet,
>> > but some people have Win 2000 betas for testing purposes. Has anyone
>> > tried DJGPP and WinAllegro under Win 2000?
>> 
>> The NT kernel (according to my neighbor) has always
>> run 16-bit programs "under emulation."
>
>Is it known for sure that the current betas of Windows 2K are based
>on NT?  From what I hear, including the LFN support in the DOS box,
>it's possible that it is based on Windows 9X.

Win2k Personal is based on the 9x kernel.

The boot screen for Win2k Pro beta:
Microsoft
 W i n d o w s   2 0 0 0
  Built on NT Technology

Microsoft Windows NT: Nice Try.

They might have reused the 9x LFN source in Win2k. Too bad
NT isn't free software; otherwise, we would have hacked
LFN support in long ago. (But we can dream, can't we?)


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