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From: "J.P. Morris" <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Windows ME (Millennium Edition), the third major release of Windows
> 9x, has NO SUPPORT for DOS apps.  We DOS programmers have just lost
> our market:

AFAIK, they've just dumped support for true real-mode, and DOS programs
will still work in a DOS box.
If this is not true, then you may as well use W2K instead since that
can run at least some DOS apps in a V86 box.

> 
> I certainly hope the hard drive can be used as such a boot disk.

Alternatively, something like BOCHS or VMware or Plex86 can be used to
create a virtual environment for DOS apps that need true real mode.

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