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Il giorno Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:13:04 -0700, "Alexei A. Frounze"
<alexfru AT chat DOT ru> ha scritto:

>Charles Sandmann wrote:
>>> I searched with google and it seems that
>>> vista can only give 32MB to these programs,
>>> I found no suggestion for a way around this yet,
>>> but maybe there will be a patch from Microsoft ?
>>
>> Confirmed.  And Vista DPMI lies about the available
>> memory (saying much more than 32MB is available).
>
>I've already posted, 16-bit apps are dead on 64-bit Windows. And so are DOS 
>boxes and any DPMI apps. 

I can confirm, at the office we had to reformat all our lab new pc, sold with
xp 64 pre-installed, and install xp 32 in order to have all our old tools still
working.