Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:10:56 +0200 (IST)
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> And if MS really disabled apps from using h/w directly, I bet nobody would
> go for Windows. But Win NT is much more stable than Win 9x.

NT is stable *because* it doesn't allow some of the tricks that DOS 
hardware-oriented programs routinely pull.