On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Thomas Harte wrote: > > > > Frankly I'm amazed you're giving him such hassle. I might have thought > > > you'd actually be pleased that someone was taking the time and trouble to > > > port SimCoupe to your favourite platform. > > > > Even more so since DOS compatibility is apparently 'out' as far as > > windows 2000 is concerned. > > Yes and no - it depends on which version of W2K you mean. > > There are Win2K Server and Win2K Workstation which are just NT5 > Server/Workstation rebranded and are therefore of course not DOS-compatible. > There is however Win2K Personal Edition which is essentially the third > instalment of Win95,Win98,... and which is backwards-compatible, presumably > with > DOS too. This came about because of a change of heart on the part of > Microsoft, > which originally wanted people to switch from Win98 to NT5 (hence the > rebranding) but then relented and decided to make another straight upgrade. > Confusing, eh?
Presumably, they are now planning to migrate everyone to NT6/Win200[2-3], or whatever. One wonders whether they will back down _again_ (for what, the 3rd time in a row?) and make the consumer version of Windows released then a DOS derivative as well... They're gonna have to break compatability at some point... -- Robert
