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David,
I don't have any inside info on Win-98. Perhaps a beta tester could better
answer your question.
What I can say is that Microsoft has always sacrificed a lot of potential
performance advancements by including backward compatibility into each new
version of DOS and Windows. OS-2 was an example of a better performance OS
that IBM released, but it didn't include backward compatibility for DOS
programs and thus died a slow death.
There are many programs in daily use that rely on DOS routines and I can't
imagine that MS would suddenly abandon their past development practices and
cast millions of users adrift. From what I've read, there are no major
surprises in Win-98.
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At 06:36 AM 2/28/98 +1100, you wrote:
>Ron,
>
>Does this backward compatibility mean that DOS programs will work in
>Windows 98?
>
>The best program that I have for some of my market work is DOS based and
>would be just tooooo slow in windows. Here's hoping!!
>
>David Hunt
>http://homepages.tig.com.au/~adest
>
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>| From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxx>
>| To: Chris Baker <chrisbak@xxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>| Subject: Re: Multiple Monitor support in Windows 98
>| Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 4:27 AM
>|
>| First of all, I'm sure that the comment from the Omega Support Tech. that
>| 16-Bit TS will not run on a 32-Bit Win-98 is simply wrong. Perhaps he
>| didn't understand the question or was having a bad day, but any 16-bit
>| program will run under Win-98 -- If it didn't, much of the software that
>| people rely on each day would be suddenly obsolete-- MS has always paid a
>| lot of attention to backward compatibility.
>|
>| The multiple monitors in Win-98 will allow you to spread any image that
>| normally appears on one monitor over a virtual desktop of multiple
>monitors,
>| but you must have a separate video card and an open slot inside your
>| computer for each of the monitors.
>|
>| A better solution that is available now is a multiple monitor board that
>| requires only one slot, but feeds multiple monitors. One vendor is
>| ColorGraphics at: http://www.colorgfx.com/
>|
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