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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:35:49 GMT
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3715-7-1648259.html?tag=st.sw.3715-7-1648258.txt.3715-7-1648259
> >
> ><first response censored by the Committee to Prevent Network Meltdown>
> >
> >You know, instead of KILLING DOS entirely, what they should do is by
> >default install a dual boot with the "other" boot being pure DOS.
> 
> Currently, I use a similar technique with Windows 98.  If I will be

But as noted in another message, you can't do this with W2k, and I think
it's a safe bet WinME will be the same :(

> doing hard-core DOS action, I pick "Command prompt only" so that my
> sound card will not crackle horribly.  But with Windows ME, it seems
> I will have to reformat and repartition my hard drive to get several
> boot partitions below 32 MB.

What sound card is this? I vaguely recall some serious lack of support
for certain sound cards in W98.
 
> >Then Windows could be free of real mode code (since this seems to be
> >their objective), and users who need DOS could still use it without
> >having to thrash around with a boot disk that may or may not work,
> >and without having to hunt for another dual boot util that is
> >guaranteed to work with WinMe (that's almost as good as WinCE :)
> 
> This has been CCed to Microsoft's suggestion box:
>   mailto:mswish AT microsoft DOT com

Good!! I'd have done it myself if I'd known where to send it offhand!

~REZ~