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From: gohyongkwang AT hotmail DOT com (Goh, Yong Kwang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Which OS more suited for using DJGPP: Win98SE or WinME?
Date: 30 Jun 2004 04:41:24 -0700
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Hi.

Recently, I will be reformatting and reinstalling the OS for my
desktop PC which I'll be primarily using for learning programming
using assembler and DJGPP. So now I've a choice between installing
Win98SE or WinME.

Since WinME has already taken out DOS 16 real-mode support, does it
cripple or affect programming with DJGPP and running programs
generated by DJGPP's C compiler?

Is it safer and more trouble-free to stick with Win98SE instead?
Apparently, I saw a couple of postings in this newsgroup from users on
WinME complaining they run into a whole lot of trouble trying to get
WinME to work with DJGPP.

I maybe writing programs that attempts to access BIOS and memory
directly using assembly languages or calling int86 function in C. Plus
fiddling in good old DEBUG.COM.

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Goh, Yong-Kwang
Singapore