Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: sas... Bill Arnette
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00

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dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu (Daniel McCarty) writes:

>In article <798682...@markbz.demon.co.uk>, Ma...@markbz.demon.co.uk
>says...
>>
>>You can have whatever config.sys or autoexec you like
>>if you run the Dos session in DOS single mode.
>>
>>--
>       Yeah, this is nice.  The only problem: every time you start the
>       game/program that uses these settings Windows will shut down,
>       your computer will reboot, and it'll load up with the alternative
>       autoexec and config.

>       Then, after your finished playing a game, it reloads win95.
>       Quite a pain.  Would've been nicer if they could've done it like
>       OS/2's virtual "dos" sessions, but I guess they ran into some
>       limitations...

Win95 does have virtual DOS sessions.  MS-DOS mode (single DOS application
mode), IMO is intended as a last resort if you are unable to get your 
application running in a DOS VM.

>Daniel.
>dmcc...@sitvxa.stevens-tech.edu

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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/05/01
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