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Subject: Re: Windows 2000 won't run 16 bit chess/game programs

Author: Robert C. Maddox

Date: 15:15:30 08/17/99

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On August 16, 1999 at 11:45:16, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>I hear from my technophile friends that Windows 2000 will not run 16 bit
>programs and is "only" able to run 32 and 64 bit code.  This means that any
>Win95/98 program should be just fine until the processors can only run 64 and
>128 bit programs.  That should be 3 to 4 years from now.

Does anyone really know what Windows 2000 will support?  I thought MS had
decided to support 16 bit programs after all, even DOS.

Anyway, I suppose one could still create a partition just for Win95/98 and
legacy programs, no?

Robert M.




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