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- From: joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
- Subject: Re: NT console mode?
- Message-ID: <joiner.720987451@myria>
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- Organization: University of Minnesota
- References: <1992Nov5.055216.22305@emr1.emr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:17:31 GMT
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- In <1992Nov5.055216.22305@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
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- >I don't have NT and will wait until it's released, but I've been listening
- >in on all of the (interesting) conversations here. I've overheard some
- >discussion of console mode. Could someone give me a brief description of
- >this console mode? Is it initiated much like a DOS session is initiated from
- >Windows 3.1 or is it an option for booting, i.e. can you just boot up in
- >console mode and later run the GUI if you wish. Is it a suitable environment
- >for porting large FORTRAN character-based apps from systems like VAXes?
-
- NT comes up in GUI mode, and from the program manager you can run console
- sessions, misnamed MS-DOS prompts, in a manner just like Win 3.1. You get
- a character window and a C: prompt where you can issue NT, DOS, WIN16,
- and OS/2 1.x commands. You can run these sessions either windowed or full-
- screen. The windowed sessions allow you to change fonts and screen-buffer
- size.
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