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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:42:52 -0300, salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
> wrote:
>
> >some packages (Netscape and Office are good examples)
> >upgrades a lot of things, including Windows kernel.
>
> /me shrieks.
> So that's why Windows is so buggy.  Think of what it would be like
> if the Netscape installer for e.g. Linux went and "upgraded" the
> kernel.

Yeap, that's one of the reasons. I saw it when Eli suggested to check the
version of the DLL that handles DOS virtual consoles (also virtual memory and
other kernel level stuff) [It was to try to find a correlation with a problem in
dpmi_yield]. I found 5 different versions in 6 machines I had with Windows 95!
The difference? different software loaded ... after that I paid more attention
to what dlls are replaced by programs ;-)

SET

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