RE: OT: old com files
- Posted by sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> Apr 17, 2001
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Windows XP(formerly .NET, Micro$oft's plan to kill Win-doze) sure won't, because it's an entirely new OS from what I heard. and if they don't work, you could always get an x86 emulator like Bochs(free, but doesn't emulate the Pentium RDTSC opcode and has a little problem with hardware) or VMWare Irv Mullins wrote: > Hi: > > I tried the search engines for this, but they refused to search for > "com" - > wonder why:? ;^) > > Anyway, I have a friend who uses a large number of programs compiled > back > around 1983, in .com, not .exe, format. Does anyone know if Win2k or XP > will > run these? > > Regards, > Irv > >