Re: DOS Card

2003-01-22 Thread J Sand
Negatory! DOS and Windows run better, and more reliably, on a MAC, than on a gen-u-wine PC. Seriously! That changes my opinion of the DOS card from being a novelty. I assume it has something to do with how the instruction set is being used in the 680X0 style of CPU chip being more stable

Re: DOS Card

2003-01-22 Thread J Sand
Well, my 640CD DOS runs Win95 fine, and would likely run 98. Haven't tried NT. Using PCSetup, Win98 is supposed to be supported. NT never will be. This is probably due to the fact that both Win 95/98 both use a different style of FAT (File Allocation Table) than NT which uses NTFS. NT is

Re: DOS Card

2003-01-22 Thread Brian Futrell
on 1/22/03 6:37 AM, J Sand at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my 640CD DOS runs Win95 fine, and would likely run 98. Haven't tried NT. Using PCSetup, Win98 is supposed to be supported. NT never will be. This is probably due to the fact that both Win 95/98 both use a different style

Re: DOS Card

2003-01-22 Thread Jack Gallemore
Actually, it is the way NT allows access to the system peripherals. NT is supposed to simulate what called protective mode operations. If an app fails, theoretically, the OS won't crash (but it still does). In running this way, NT drivers were VERY specific and kludgy. That's why very few