On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 some message from Thomas Mueller appeared before me saying,
>Has anybody heard about the upcoming consumer version of Windows? According to
>Heise News, in German, the new release won't have the ability to run DOS real
>mode applications, and according to about.com, won't have the ability to boot
>into DOS as Doze 98 can. So where will that leave Arachne? MS wants everybody
>to run IE. Article from the latest About Today newsletter:
That's correct the new windows version is called Windows 2000 and is the
next Windows NT version, as Windows NT never could boot into dos, Windows
2000 can't either.
Their is the possibility to run real-mode DOS applications under Windows
NT, but don't expect a stable working platform. And the performance drops
to about 0
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