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[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 24 May 2012 03:23:24 -0400, simendsjo <simendsjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2012 00:03:59 +0200, Walter Bright  
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/23/2012 2:57 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:36 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer  
>>> <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright  
>>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Win7 has enough problems that I'm forced to keep my old WinXP  
>>>>> machine operating:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. can't run 16 bit programs
>>>>
>>>> Really, have no sympathy there :)
>>>
>>> BTW, you should be able to do this with XP mode.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> I checked that, but there was some other issue with that that made it  
>> useless.
>
> Yeah, running 16-bit in win7 is difficult (next to impossible?).
> We ended up using virtualized xp machines for 16-bit applications at  
> work :)

XP Mode *is* a virtualized XP Pro instance.

I'm unaware of the limitation Walter speaks of.  I know it won't do  
hardware graphics acceleration, but other than that, I think it works just  
like an XP system, except the application windows are displayed like they  
were running on your win7 system.

-Steve