Date: 15 Apr 1997 12:08:55 -0000
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To: mwarchol AT flash DOT net, opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: b52g AT usa DOT net (JP Morris)
Subject: Re: Question regarding Opendos and Win#95

>  Listies,
>     Can windows#95 be operated with Opendos?  I am unclear where to find
Sort of.

As far as I know it is just about possible, using a partition manager.
This means of course that you will have to chose between OD and 95 each time
the machine boots.
At present, 95 will not run on top of opendos like 3.1 does.

>this answer in the help information and cannot determin how the two systems
>may conflict.  If others have expierence with this type of configuration
>please respond or if there is a fact-file covering this and necessary means
>for doing it correctly please forward.  My goal is to hopefully operate
>Opendos for those applacations I require in dos and use W#95 for windows
>applacations I desire.  Currently W#31 is running successfully with my
>Opendos o-system.

Make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for.
In my experience win95 is an absolute *words fail me*!

We have two machines.

Mine runs opendos and win 3.1 after I migrated from DRDOS 6.
Occasionally I have small crashes when installing new hardware.

Dad's machine runs windows 95.
Each time new hardware is added/changed, win95 crashes totally and
we have to reformat drive C, salvaging what information we can.
BTW, he writes win95 training courses.

This is plug-and-pay:

1.  Switch off system
2.  Remove device
3.  Add new device.
4.  Switch on.
5.  Win95 detects new hardware and looks for device drivers.
6.  Win95 cannot find device drivers and asks you for them.
7.  You give win95 the drivers and it crashes.
8.  You remove the device and spend 3-4 days examining system
    properties, irq conflicts, buggy drivers etc.
9.  Reformat drive C and rebuild the system.
10. go to 5.
11. Gather friends and family and all their expansion cards.
12. Swap borrowed expansion cards until win95 stops crashing.
13. Buy, steal or negotiate a swap for the card that works
    under win95.
    My system is full of really expensive kit that destroyed
    win95 in my dad's machine.

Moral(s):   [feel free to quote, put in your sig etc]

        Switch to win95 if you feel lucky, punk.

        Once I added a sb32 pnp to Dad's system.  It took 3 days and I had
nightmares about the
        device manager window for 7 nights afterwards.

        Win95 works for some people.  It could be you!

        I was never superstitious until I usewd win95.

>     Thanks in advance for any help.
>        Mark
>
>                     Mark  F.  Warchol,  MWarchol AT Flash DOT net
>Sunny shores of beautiful Blue-Water-Beach   Lexington,  Michigan  USA
>
>
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