Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > xp support will be phased out next year (2014).
Yes, in case you haven't noticed, they want everyone to upgrade. > there is support in windows 7 "xp mode" (via a virtual machine called > microsoft virtual pc) for win7ult. Not meant for home users (minimal graphics support), not even officially allowed except on business class editions of Windows. > works on 64 and 32-bit. emulates 32-bit > xp, which is the only version that has command.com so it can run djgpp. I once heard that VPC only supported a Pentium 2. While that's not exactly painful, it's still worse than a native install. More important would be speed, but I have no idea how good or bad it fares. > I need to test and see if my 64-bit box will run djgpp without > modification... this i something I need to find out, because I would still > like to do dos development. > it would be a quick test. > but my 64-bit box is inaccessible right now. Yes, all x64 cpus (AFAIK) still support 16-bit real mode and all the old 8086 instructions. Though most don't really let you do that within 64-bit long mode itself (outside of some form of VT-X). I still occasionally run FreeDOS in Win7 64-bit under VirtualBox. More often is DOSEMU under 32-bit (Lucid) Puppy Linux, thanks to V86 mode. And even more often I use native FreeDOS on bare metal. They all have different advantages, though honestly a native install (or even USB via RUFUS) is more accurate and pleasant to use for most things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
