Subj : Re: Now I'm really pissed about Windows XP Beta
To   : Robert Comer
From : Geo.
Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 03:00 pm

From: "Geo." <georger@nls.net>

You are further off. I'll explain.

If you run DOS, then you will never find anything that is 100% compatible in 
the NT world. If you run Mac then you will never find anything that is 100% 
compatible in the PC world.

The complaints of old software that don't work, those aren't complaints of old 
software that don't work those are complaints of a platform that isn't 100% 
compatible with another platform. Dos based windows and NT are not the same OS 
even though both are called windows.

W2K is fully backwards compatible, all the old NT apps run on it. It's not 100% 
cross platform compatible in that some of the old dos games and some of the low 
level dos based windows utilities will not run.

It always bothers me when someone says "backwards compatible" referring to NT 
and DOS programs. DOS is not where NT came from (and for some reason I find the 
comparison a little insulting <g>). It's like talking to a Unix type and 
telling him that his unix isn't backwards compatible because it can't run some 
dos app.

Geo.

"Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote in message 
news:3ac53c50@comertower....
> <I hope I have made my point clearly this time>
>
> I think I'm further off now.  I kind of like playing games and using cool
> new hardware at home. (which has never been possible with the NT kernel.)
>
> - Bob Comer <I run W2K too at home, but not on my main PC.>
>
>
> "Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:3ac5363e@w3.nls.net...
>
>

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