X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Georg Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: incompatible Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <16cd2 DOT 48279178 DOT 3ce778e4 AT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.78.35.225 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337362032 3059 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2012 17:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: dg7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=46.78.35.225; posting-account=v5xbdQoAAAAOGc9Ccc-kLZyobvPlN3Qr User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1895 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com You could buy a PC without operating system and then install Linux from a DVD. Most 32bit Windows programs won't run on Windows 7 in 64bit mode too. The suggested way to run these is MS Virtual PC (free) or some other emulation like Oracle Virtual Box, VMWare, Qemu etc. At the office I had to get a Windows 7 PC and they installed Virtual PC for all my old applications (Ami Pro ;-). However, Virtual PC is very slow and crashes as soon as the Windows 7 screensaver starts. I should have insisted on a Windows XP PC. But they needed to run an up- to-date virus scanner and that would not be available for Windows XP in the future. GCC supports 64bit on Linux. So all that needs to done is that Charles Sandmann quickly writes a 64bit DOS extender and DJ Delorie ports GCC 64bit to DOS. ;-)) Georg