18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
4:16 p.m.
On 1/18/2006 at 6:27 PM Scott Stevens wrote:
16-bit Windows runs exceptionally well[1] on modern
hardware, as
long as you can get driver support. And if you are doing
low-level programming on older processors, the tools are all DOS
based anyway. Virtual DOS sessions run well enough inside
Windows 3.11. And of course, you can run DOS and Windows 3
inside a virtual machine, i.e. Bochs on your favorite free 'unix'
variant.
I use DOS, but I run with a 32-bit DPMI server. I find the 16-bit
performance of Pentium-class systems to be very much inferior to the native
32-bit mode.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/dosextenders.shtml
Cheers,
Chuck