rbowman
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 03:31:16 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 04/03/2017 02:40 PM, Oren wrote:
Just a couple of comments. People can correct me but my
experience, XP still has a bunch of 16 bit code when MSFT first
moved to "NT" (New Technology) The 32 bit code still allows some
16 & 8 bit programs to run.

There are some gotchas. Win7 got rid of ANSI.sys. It's a small
niche but legacy programs that used ncurses (the old menu system
like the BIOS screens) won't work. DOSBox was developed by the
gamers to run their legacy stuff and can be used.


With regard to ansi.sys, say what? Are you BBSing or something?
Running a doorgame? I don't know of many apps outside of that (aside
from your own colorful menus or something) that even used it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI.SYS

Oddly, you can still run 16 bit applications on 32 bit Windows 10:

That's not er, odd, really. It's EMULATED though. Has been for a long
long time.

32 bit Win10 installs are pretty rare though. On 64 bit XP, 7, 8,
and 10 you're SOL.

No, you aren't, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox


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