Re: TSR on XP
- From: Herbert Kleebauer <klee@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:57:09 +0200
Paul Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>
> I am well aware what "MSDOS" stands for. Roughly speaking, Microsoft
> has had two families of operating systems. (You may already be aware
> of this.) There were the original versions of DOS proper. Early
> versions of Windows including 3.x, 95, 98, 98SE, and ME (I think) ran
> on top of a version of DOS. Then there is what we might call the NT
> family of Microsoft operating systems -- NT, 2000, and XP. These do
> not run on top of DOS but only emulate a DOS layer with more or less
> (sometimes less) accuracy. However, these latter are not usually said
> to run MSDOS proper. The operating environments for running DOS TSR
> programs are considerably different for the NT/2K/XP family of
> operating systems from the true DOS environments. Programs that might
> (or might not) run properly in one of the Windows 9x family may have a
> considerably difficult time, so to speak, running in the NT family.
> The differences are such that NT/2K/XP questions are more appropriate
> in newsgroups dedicated to them.
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Miscellaneous topics about MS-DOS machines.
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There is no charter but only a short description. It is
about machines running a MicroSoft Disk Operating System.
At the creation date MS-DOS Version 4.01 was in use.
But there is no restriction to only this version. So
when one month later MS-DOS Version 5.0 was available
this was also on topic in this group. And just because
Microsoft once decided to design a completely new
Microsoft Disk Operating System and no longer use
simple version numbers doesn't make it off topic in
this group (what would you say, if Microsoft hadn't
called it Windows NT but MS-DOS 10.0 or MS-DOS 2000).
So I think, that all questions about the OS itself are
still on topic in this group (but not questions about
the graphical user interface even if this can't be
separated from the OS since NT).
Intel made the same decision as Microsoft and stopped
using simple numbers (like 8086, 80286, 80486) and
now uses the name Pentium, but I never heard, that
somebody said a question about the P4 is off topic
in comp.lang.asm.x86 (and the core of the P4 surely
hasn't more similarities with the 8086 than Windows XP
with DOS 1.0).
.
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