X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Sterten AT aol DOT com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:32:55 EDT Subject: Re: no DPMI memory under Windows vista To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5014 X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l3S4iq0J025905 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I always disliked that period-"argument". Sounds like you won't tolerate any other opinion on that ?! Even if Microsoft won't do it (would they?) someone else might offer it. Other options include switching to another operating system (Linux,Dos,..) or "downgrading" to XP. Should Vista be recommended at all or should we better buy old, used computers with other operating systems installed ? Maybe vendors should offer computers with offer operating systems too, maybe buyers should more frequently explicitely require other operating systems. But, despite your "period" , I still have hope that someone will offer a patch for download... The other options suggested here - I don't so well understand it, how/whether I can do it, compatibilities, how much time required. I'll reconsider it , when no patch is being offered. At the moment I don't use the Vista-computer, maybe I can sell it to someone who needs no old software. --------------------------------- In einer eMail vom 28.04.2007 05:18:24 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt alexfru AT chat DOT ru: 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.