X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:07:32 -0500 From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: no DPMI memory under Windows vista Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:03:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Message-ID: Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.170.72.236 X-Trace: sv3-dorZ2EKYCRNdFOnUjDZvK2rQhVzuCu3ikMxL2/dv0E4+61pqwTtakTERuufa4uugkMQARptBFHaZRVN!hQnZCwPv0O6qwVLzW7MKoncsrdgidqxP+mhU05pQXMR6atNY+YvvY+IkxPv5ZkGyL7NBy9G2qTNs!9loEi1m2lGG9t4+DenW6cPYieVziWA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT comcast DOT net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca AT comcast DOT net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Microsoft won't do it. Period. So, there's no option as to who should fix what. You fix your code. Alex wrote in message news:bee DOT 13f623fa DOT 3362fd78 AT aol DOT com... now, what's easier to just write a patch which allows these programs to run as before or to adapt them all to the new OS ? Just count the total programming time needed ! It probably results in many old programs no longer being available, but well, maybe that's how Microsoft wants to hold down competing software.