From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Michael Tippach wrote:

> What's "OS" in the environment set to? E.g. under NT 4 it's
> "OS=Windows_NT"

W2K sets it to the same string (or so I'm told).

> > One problem with NT that needs to be worked around is that NT ignores the
> > hight 16 bits of the user procedure address that is installed as a
> > real-mode  callback (e.g., for handling mouse events).
> 
> Does Win2K behave the same?

No, it seems that this particular bug doesn't exist in W2K.