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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: sas... Bill Arnette
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00
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jmw...@is2.nyu.edu   (Jeff Williams) writes:
  
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>If you like, I'll repost his original message.  He did ask a simple question.
>The one statement he made was "As I understand it, Windows 95 cannot
>run multiple configurations in concurrently running DOS sessions" or something
>to that effect.  There STILL has not been anyone that's given any new
>information regarding this (it's possible this has been updated in the
>latest version of Win95, but the information I have also says that Win95
>runs every concurrently running DOS program in a single VM).  You started

I though I could stay out of this debate but...

>From the Windows 95 Resource Kit on the build 445 CD-ROM:

Application Support/
 Technical notes on application support/
  Support for MS-DOS Based applications:

   "As with Windows 3.1, each MS-DOS - base application runs in its own
   DOS virtual machine (VM), which allows multiple 8086-compatible sessions
   to run on the CPU, which in turn allows existing MS-DOS - based 
   applications to run preemptively with the rest of the system."


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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/20
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