[Coco] I need copies of unmodified OS-9 disk images

[Brian Blake]

Windows 95 and 98 were GUI's on top of DOS, has noted before. ME, the
abomination it was, was due to the fact they tried to merge features of 2000
and 98SE to make a more 'robust' OS, failing miserably in the process.

Windows 2000 is a direct descendant of NT 4.0. The NT 5 kernel, which IS
windows 2000, was carried over virtually untouched into Windows XP, which
had a prettier interface (many of us called it the 'Fisher Price OS'). The
only real differences between XP Home and XP Pro deal with networking and
memory management. Pro has several more options for networking that Home
does not (including the ability to join a domain), and pro is better with
memory management due it's use on workstations with more memory than most
home systems would have.

Both Pro and Home are equally capable of running in a Windows 98 mode for
backwards compatibility.

As for VCC, I've run it on 2000, XP and Windows 7 with great success, even
creating real floppies with it for use in my CoCo. I will not say it will
run on any NT based machine, but, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't.


Brian


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> It wasn't just my instructor. The documentation (books) were from
> Microsoft. Maybe I got something wrong, maybe Microsoft is just as screwy in
> their documentation as they are in the way they approach "new, from the
> ground up".
>
> Wayne
>
> ----- Original Message ----- I don't know where your instructor got this
> idea, but he is very misinformed.
>
>
> Windows XP, whether the home or pro flavor, is descended from the NT
> line.   ME was the end of the 95 line . There is no relationship
> between ME and XP home flavor.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows
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