Pippi, others,
Do my eyes deceive me? Can it be that Win9x is
now a SurvOS? Heavens. Pippi is quite correct.
Other than actual DOS itself and DosEmu under
Linux & BSD, Win9x is the last MS-published OS
that will support all those SurvApps.
As most of you know, you can actually set up
a Win9x box to boot past the GUI, straight to
the DOS prompt. I used to run Win3.1 over
"DOS 7.0" after having installed Win95 and
disabled the GUI. "DOS 7.0" gave me more low
memory to play with, and I actually got better
background tasking with Win3.1, so I ran that
bastardized setup for more than a year.
(And all of this over a Novell 3.x network. It
performed very well, solid as a rock. And then
the management changed over to Win9x with the
Windows Networking model. Oh boy.)
~~Garry
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> At 02:12 AM 7/17/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > My general impression is that the aging windows 95 is
> > probably the best version of windows for being able to
> > actually run most of your dos programs.
> >
> > Is this correct? If I ever need to get a copy of winblows
> > for work related reasons, I would like one that let me get
> > to a relatively stable form of dos relatively easily.
>
> I've used both windows 95 and windows 98 and found both
> to be pretty stable when set up with care, maintained, and
> not subsequently fiddled with but merely used in a regular
> fashion. I do prefer 98 when I can use it, I like the
> browser integration, the quicklaunch toolbar, and so forth.
> for DOS box I find there is little difference although the
> w98 DOS is likely more stable as they've changed how it
> allocates resources for 8 and 16 bit services over the
> previous system.
[ ... ]
> Regarding WinME I have heard that they are pulling it off
> the market and will not be supporting all those machines
> that shipped with it. Furthermore it contains no legacy
> support. You cannot run your old DOS apps or install older
> equipment with it. No 16 or 8bit support.
> w2k is a monster of an application requiring a fair bit of
> skill to install and use plus a hefty lot of machine to run.
> I think for the next few years people will continue to use
> w9x if they want to use a 32 bit Microsoft product.
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