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simendsjo
simendsjo at gmail.com
Thu May 24 05:54:46 PDT 2012
On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:50 +0200, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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
Yes, XP mode is a virtualized xp, but running 16-bit virtualized
applications in a virtualized xp mode on win7 just doesn't work like it
should :)
Good to see we're not the only one with this problem.
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