9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
10:38 a.m.
Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
(I'm bundling XP/2000 under the heading of
"NT" because there's not a
whole lot of difference between the flavors at that level. Remember that
betas of 2000 were called "NT 5.0").
[[ Beta-Schmeta ]]
From my Winders 2K command prompt:
C:\!Tivo2>ver
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
Windoze XP is NT Version 5.1. The only differences is it plays more games,
looks uglier (unless you turn it all off, like I do), and takes more
memory... ;-)
Where you'd have problems is with MS-DOS utilities
that access the drives
directly and expect to program an 8237 DMA controller. Many such
utilities have DMA 2/IRQ 6 hardwired.
Right, but on those mobos where you can set that specifically, it *might*
just work.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
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