Yep, you'd be right!!! Which is why I didn't refer to them as true VM's!!!!
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Nick Behnken
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Win95 runs all dos apps in a seperate VM in VM86. Win32 apps share the
> System VM ... ie the one that is present went dos loads becomes
> the system
> vm. All other dos vm's are copied from the system vm, but share a portion
> of the first 640K of memory. This is why if you use debug from a
> dos vm and
> overwrite the first 64K of ram. Windows 95/98 crashes.. because you just
> overwrote the real mode interrupt table.. So much for a true
> protected mode
> OS ! lol
>
> Windows NT does not use VM86! The dos emulator is a win32 app written by
> Insignia.
>
> Nick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Northup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:08 PM
> Subject: RE: Vocabulary
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> > Yeah....., not only do they say that it is all in one VM, but
> that is what
> > the Win2k debug team leader said..... to my face. I'll take
> his word for
> > it!!! As for the MSDN library thing you are probably
> right--that thing is
> > full of errors!!!
> >
> > Drew Northup, N1XIM
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > Of X-Odus
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> Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:37 AM
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> > > Subject: Re: Vocabulary
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> > > This probably doesnt matter but:
> > > http://www.fayle.freeserve.co.uk/95vmm.htm
> > >
> > > That says that Win95 and all Win32 processes run in the same VM.
> > > I remember
> > > something in the MSDN library saying differently. But hey who cares.
> > >
> > > Amy Lear wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: X-Odus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > > Look up windows architecture it refers to them as virtual
> machines.
> > > >
> > > > I feel obligated to note that in the NT 4.0 terminology, a
> > > computer boots from
> > > > the system partition, and the OS loads from the boot partition.
> > > >
> > > > However Microsoft refers to something hardly matters, in many cases.
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