X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Sterten AT aol DOT com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:10:04 EDT Subject: Re: no DPMI memory under Windows vista To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1177488604" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5014 X-Spam-Flag: NO Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com -------------------------------1177488604 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable but can't we just include some old platform to support the old DOS-programs=20= ? =20 switch from Vista back to an XP-like-cmd.exe and then back to Vista on exit =20 Even if you -maybe- could easily write Vista-programs from now on, old programs from decades of DOS-programming would be lost ! =20 Thousands of hours of programming, research, old papers and references can't be verified etc. =20 -------------------------------1177488604 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

but can't we just include some old platform to support the old DOS-prog= rams=20 ?

switch from Vista back to an XP-like-cmd.exe and then back to Vista on=20 exit

Even if you -maybe- could easily write Vista-programs from now on,

old programs from decades of DOS-programming would be lost !

Thousands of hours of programming, research, old papers and=20 references

can't be verified etc.

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