[geeks] Re: Windows XP?

[Andrew Weiss]

Win2K seems to run almost all games fine if you apply the appropriate 
application support fix.  I haven't had a game that wouldn't run on 
Win2K... not even DOS games.. (except of course those that touch 
hardware directly)

Andrew

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 10:59  PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> --- Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>>> Serious question here folks.
>>>
>>> What are the benefits of Windows XP over Windows 2000?  The specific
>>> context of this is in a gameing system.
>
> Win2K is the end of one thread for an OS, as is Win98/ME, WinXP is an
> effort to bridge the two together, IIRC. As was mentioned earlier, my
> son's PC runs WinXP, and has great flexibility for running odd/older
> DOS Windows applications - Win2K does not...
>
> =====
> Lionel
>
> "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
> programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
> Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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