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Subject: Re: Which OS more suited for using DJGPP: Win98SE or WinME?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:07:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Goh, Yong Kwang <gohyongkwang AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
: Hi.

: Recently, I will be reformatting and reinstalling the OS for my
: desktop PC which I'll be primarily using for learning programming
: using assembler and DJGPP. So now I've a choice between installing
: Win98SE or WinME.

The best OS for this task is IMHO OS2 v4. It may be considered a dead
OS, but it suits the task of DJGPP/RHIDE coding very well. It's crash
proof and very fast indeed. Note that you might have big trouble
finding drivers if you've got a fairly new computer.

I coded some programs a few years ago in this environment using
RHIDE/DJGPP+Allegro(for music+svga). The only problem is that none of
these programs run under WinXP/w2k. 

Not sure about WinME as I haven't been using it.

Lars