Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 06:04:59 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 07:25:54, Laurence Chen wrote: >On April 13, 2000 at 06:18:27, Inmann Werner wrote: > >>Hello >> >>My engine (InmiChess) never was able to run under NT and winboard. Do not know >>why. Now I had access to a win2000 machine, and it runs!!! >>I always thought, W2000 is a sucessor of NT. >>Has anybody an explanation for this? >>(Maybe then i can make some fix for NT...) >> >>Werner >Windows 2000 is a true 32 bit OS, and it will only run 32 bit applications. If >you have your program compiled as 16 bit, it won't run on Windows 2000. This >applies to games as well. Windows 2000 will only run 32 bit games, so no DOS or >16 bit Windows games will run on Windows 2000. Of course, one would also need >to get the latest video and sound drivers for it. >Laurence Most 16-bit programs run just fine on Win2000. I know there are some that don't, but a lot of them do. In many cases, you have to run them from the DOS prompt (by running command.com), but they still do run.
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