From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:27:55 +0100, "J.P. Morris"
<doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:

>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.

One of the major reasons I use true real mode is that my sound card
crackles horribly when running DOS games from inside Windows 98.

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