Subj : Re: 16bit = no future
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sun Apr 28 2019 03:42 pm

-=> On 04-27-19 18:47, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Bummer, that's weird.  Do you have a Win 9x VM you can fire up?

 AA> WinXP has W95 compatibility built in.   I can't bother if I have to go
 AA> dance around outside what WinXP can do.   I suspect that the Durango
 AA> .exe is corrupted.  Meanwhile, SemPoint 2.26 is 16bit and has no
 AA> problems on my XP at all.

Some Win9x software used VxD's, which can't be used in an XP (or other NT
kernel) environment.  So it depends how the program is setup.  But in this
instance, corruption of the .exe could be the culprit.

 AA> There can be a future for *some* 16bit progs for a little while longer.
 AA>  ;)

True. :)


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