W dniu 12.04.2020 o 03:11, CM Poncelet pisze:
Yes - I still use DOS and SPF/PC, which are about 20 times faster
CPU-wise than Windows XP (the last version that still supports DOS
applications.)
XP is the last version that supports DOS applications?
I think it is matter of 32-bit vs 64-bit version/flavour of Windows.
Simply speaking, 64-bit Windows does not support 16-bit applications,
including Windows apps, like IBM Bookreader 2.03.
Of course it is not good reason to stay with 32-bit Windows on PC
machine with 32GB of RAM.
There are better ways:
1. Use DOSbox. It's freeware, intended to run old games, but other apps
are supported as well.
2. Use Virtual Box. It is "z/VM", which can host older systems including
old Windows versions and DOS itself. It's also free.
I would vote for Virtual Box, since you can have many virtual machines,
clones (just for quick and potentially dangerous tests) and you can have
"full-sized" Windows environment like Win XP with older Office and other
stuff.
And you can have OS/2 as a guest.
And your OS need not to be Windows, it can be Linux.
(of course licenses are needed for the stuff above)
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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