Le 10 janv. 2011 à 01:57, Aitor Santamaría a écrit : > Hello Eric, > > 2010/5/14 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>: >> Hi Jim, >> >>> I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. >>> machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I >>> am up a creek without a paddle trying to do dos development and >>> needing a newer intel machine with more cores (4 or 6). >> >> Does Windows 7 have the ability to run DOS apps? XP did. > > Windows7 x86 does. Windows7 x64 does not (but I guess the main > reason is that a processor on x64 mode does emulate 32-bit but not > 16-bit. > > The worst problem is that what happens to Jim may be happening to many > others, as many hardware vendors include by default the x64 version > (not the x86). In my experience, I have requested if they would > replace the x64 version with the x86, and usually refuse to do it.
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