On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does Windows 7 have the ability to run DOS apps? The 32-bit editions do. The 64-bit editions do not. > XP did. Only the 32-bit edition. No 64-bit version of Windows runs 16-bit apps. The NTVDM is gone and WOW16 which thunked Win16 API calls through to Win32 has been replaced with WOW32, which thunks Win32 calls through to Win64. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunking#OS.2F2_.26_Windows_16-bit_address_hack > The downside is that DOS in general runs only one app full > screen and might not support your network card etc. And can only use 1 CPU core. Big limitation, that. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
