>>My experience is that NT runs rather stable as long as you do not start the
>>windows or msdos subsystem. As soon as you execute a 16 bit dos or windows
>>application, NT becomes unstable, runs out of memory etc.
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>How are we supposed to run the development tools without opening a window?
>This thing that says "MS-DOS prompt" actually runs 'cmd.exe'. I'm still
>not sure if this is a true DOS window or just capable of executing DOS
>apps, but I know I have to open it to use the debuggers and compiler.
>When you say its stable if you do not run the windows subsystem, I sure
>hope you mean the Win 3.1 subsystem!
Running the command prompt wont excercise the "WOW" or "virtual dos" code, since its a pure WIn32 app, written to the console APIs, but once you start a win16 or ms-dos app, then those unfinished pieces are called in -- Alistair