is Vista64 going to support Dos16 programs ?

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Lynn McGuire - 22 May 2006 17:25 GMT

is Vista64 going to support Dos16 programs ?

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Lynn

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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] - 22 May 2006 18:43 GMT

Its safe to say "no". You can use virtual machine environments for legacy
DOS based applications in supported operating systems such as Windows 98.

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> is Vista64 going to support Dos16 programs ?
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn

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Charlie Russel - MVP - 22 May 2006 20:17 GMT

Safe? Oh, yeah. Not now, not ever.

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> Its safe to say "no". You can use virtual machine environments for legacy
> DOS based applications in supported operating systems such as Windows 98.
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>> Thanks,
>> Lynn

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Charlie Russel - MVP - 22 May 2006 20:16 GMT

No. This will not change - 64bit Windows does not support 16 bit programs.
Will not ever support 16 bit programs.

That being said, see my blog on virtualization - it's the best workaround I
know, and it gives me what I need for 16 bit apps.

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> is Vista64 going to support Dos16 programs ?
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> Thanks,
> Lynn

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Lynn McGuire - 25 May 2006 16:53 GMT

> No. This will not change - 64bit Windows does not support 16 bit programs. Will not ever support 16 bit programs.
>
> That being said, see my blog on virtualization - it's the best workaround I know, and it gives me what I need for 16 bit apps.

I read your fine article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/64bit/russel_virtualmachine.mspx
and List is precisely what I want to run. I emailed Vern and he replied that
he is not ever planning on building a Win32 console version. I gather that
List is mostly written in assembly and would have to almost totally rewritten.
Bummer.

Thanks,
Lynn

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Charlie Russel - MVP - 26 May 2006 02:25 GMT

Yup, I emailed Vern as well, and got the same answer. So I built a little
Win98 VM and I use it whenever I want use List. (I had forgotten about LIST
over the years, and you're original query a year ago reminded me of how
useful it is.)

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>> No. This will not change - 64bit Windows does not support 16 bit
>> programs. Will not ever support 16 bit programs.
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> Thanks,
> Lynn

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