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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT brother DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se>
Subject: Re: no DPMI memory under Windows vista
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Sterten AT aol DOT com wrote:

> 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.

Of course anyone can make any changes (s)he wants. If the changes is
beneficial depends on whether the patcher knows what (s)he's doing
which depends on the information that is available to her/him.

So you just have to wait for somebody to make the changes you want and
for that somebody to publish them. Or make them yourself. (With the
option of publishing them yourself.)


Now, given the lifetime of each WINDOWS version (each DOS patch to it)
and the amount of knowledgable WINDOWS/DOS users/coders, I predict
that you'll wait a long time.

Now if a wonderous patch appears tomorrow, I'm all for it. It's just
that I think that's very unlikely to happen. And if it does, with the
next WINDOWS patch, it'll be (relatively) useless as MS again messed
something (different) up.

> Should Vista be recommended at all or should we better buy old,
> used computers with other operating systems installed ?

If you want real stability, you want DJGPP 2.03 and DOS. If you need
several concurrent DOSes, a WINDOWS 98 or a WINDOWS 98 SE will serve
you well.


You might do well with WINDOWS 2000/XP, although then you need DJGPP
2.04 and there might be bugs.


And we haven't seen or know the bugs in Media Edition or Vista yet.


Right,

						MartinS