Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:49:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From: <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
cc: pierre AT tycho DOT com, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers
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> > > It is said that DirectX will not work on NT, Microsoft's vision of the
> > > future.
>  
> > Nothing *really* fast will work on NT. On NT, ports and memory protection
> > prevents user space programs from access video hardware.
> 
> NT 4.0 has DirectX 2 (bits of it anyway) built into the operating system.
> WinQuake runs just as fast on NT 4.0 as it does on Win95...

Not entirely true!
Windows NT does more housekeeping than Windows 95 does.
This makes it more stable, but less fast.

	Yeep