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Re: Device detection? [Summary]



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> NT4.0 isn't really compatible with 3.5, much less with anything from
> Win3.x or Win95.  Win98 and NT are more compatible because ... well
> because they want to kill off the old 16 bit market completely and move
> everyone to the (more expensive) NT platform.

98 is more like 95. It still has the DOS compatibility and direct hardware
access that account for a lot of the instability.

> Many people have tried that, you can get adapters for it real cheap even. 
> They just never caught on.

Yet.


Hamish
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