I think some of you are missing something here. The original
message talked about that the upcoming consumer version of
Windows. It never said Windows 2000. The upcoming consumer
version is Windows Millenium Edition (or ME). I don't know how it
relates to Windows 2000, but I'm kind of guessing that it will just
be a further modified version of Win9X, but I might be wrong.
Matt
On 17 Apr 2000, at 19:40, Cliff Albert wrote:
> 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
