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Trevor Jenkins Date: Wed Dec 23, 1998 8:27 pm Subject: Re: SignWriter 4.3 on NT Workstation 4 | ||||||||
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Valerie, > I am a Mac person too, but I use SignWriter 4.3 on my Mac anyway! :-) I'm just a bigot. So I don't have emulators on my machines for other operating systems. > In regards to the video adapter on NT...does it make it possible to run > MS-DOS on Windows NT? Provided that they are "well-behaved" it is possible to run MS-DOS applications under Windows NT. Indeed they run better under NT than do the same applications under Windows 95 and 3.1. They are run as separate threads and therefore can be scheduled along with 32-bit Windows applications. The well-behavedness is basically that they cannot access the hardware directly. Microsoft call this a security feature whereas it is properly a system integrity issue. The emulators under MacOS show that system integrity can be maintained. Further the emulators under Linux can do the same in a complete multi-user, multi-programming, multi-tasking and multi-thread environment. But again my bigotry is showing. Then again what do I know I'm just a computing scientist. :-) With the availablity of the SignWriting 4.3 source code perhaps it would be possible for some one to produce a version that is well-behaved under NT 4.0? Might it be possible to produce a Mac native version too? The Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Mac Pascal compiler is supposed to handle Turbo Pascal fairly well. The problem will be replacing the assembler code. [Valerie perhaps you and I should discuss the last two things off-list.] Regards, Trevor -- <>< Re: deemed! | ||||||||
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