DOS ain't dead - no more EMS support in XP

no more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 11.10.2012, 23:26

> Is anybody really surprised?

I am a bit surprised. So much attention on this ancien code. Why?

> They long ago gave up DOS support.

Hence the reason for my curiosity.

> Rumor already says that Win9 Home editions will be 64-bit
> only, and I have no idea how well Hyper-V 64-bit will work, even in Win8
> (only two weeks away).

XP?s popularity may be a problem for this 64-bit venture?
Some scientific research: (google hits)
16-bit 1 170 000 000 32-bit 799 000 000 64-bit 539 000 000

> Anyways, nidud, have you tried the http://www.emsmagic.com/ TSR? It should
> still work, so that's probably your best bet.

Think it will be a lot easier to just uninstall the update, if you not afraid of all these 16-bit coders lurking in the bushes with their crafty code that is ;-)

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Complete thread:

no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 14:53 (Announce)
- no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 10.10.2012, 19:21
  - no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 19:48
    - no more EMS support in XP - Arjay, 10.10.2012, 20:47
      - no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 22:35
        no more EMS support in XP - marcov, 11.10.2012, 13:46
        no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 15:17
      - no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 11.10.2012, 00:46
        no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 15:29
        no more EMS support in XP - Arjay, 11.10.2012, 17:36
        no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 19:05
        no more EMS support in XP - Rugxulo, 11.10.2012, 21:51
        no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 23:26
        no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 12.10.2012, 00:51
- no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 13.10.2012, 15:03
  - no more EMS support in XP - mvojvodic, 14.10.2012, 12:49
    - no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 14.10.2012, 18:17
  - no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 16.10.2012, 02:07
    - no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 17.10.2012, 14:25
      - no more EMS support in XP - Tito, 13.12.2012, 20:26
        no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 14.12.2012, 01:19
        no more EMS support in XP - Tito, 14.12.2012, 19:18
        no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 15.12.2012, 17:37
        no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 16.12.2012, 01:04