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Re: System 7



ccheney@mail.utexas.edu (Chris Cheney) wrote:

>Hmm, how do I get those old Win 1.x and 2.x programs to run? They
>don't seem to even like to run on old Win 3.0 much less Win95.

Actually, they should run fine on Win3.0, as long as you run it in
real mode; that capability wasn't removed until Win3.1.  As far as
running them under Win95 or Win3.1x (or Win3.0 in Enhanced or Standard
mode for that matter), simply run them the same way you would from
DOS:  under the Windows runtime they normally came with (you could use
a full version of Windows 1.0-3.0 just as easily if you don't have a
runtime version or want to run several of them at once).  After all,
an old real-mode version of Windows will run just fine under Standard
or Enhanced mode Windows (and yes that does mean you can run Windows
3.0 under itself; one of the things wrong with Win3.0, in fact, was
that it was too easy to do that by accident).

Yes, I do agree that it would have been nice if they had put in the
ability to run the old programs side-by-side with the new ones within
the Windows environment rather than requiring you to run them within a
DOS session, thus losing full clipboard integration among other
things, but you could hardly say that the old software was "made
useless" as the original poster averred.



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