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to: POINDEXTER FORTRAN
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2019-09-21 15:57:00
subject: Re: DOS Doors?

-=> On 09-20-19 16:37, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 pF>   Re: Re: DOS Doors?
 pF>   By: Tony Langdon to Dan Clough on Sat Sep 21 2019 04:35 am

 TL> NTVDM - "NT Virtual DOS Machine", which is the part of Win32 that runs DOS
 TL> apps

 pF> Back in the Windows 2000 days, there was an OS2VDM that let Windows run
 pF> OS/2 console apps. I loved being able to run Qedit and OS/2 versions of
 pF> my BBS utlities on the BBS. They dropped support for OS/2 apps in
 pF> Windows XP, although there were unsubstantiated rumors you could add it
 pF> back in somehow.

I never tried the OS/2 subsystem.  By the time I stopped running OS/2, I had
pretty much migrated to NT4, and later Win2k.


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