drivespace 3

If there ever was it would have been NT 3.51, but not 4.0. I doubt it
anyway. I remember using drivespace on MSDOS 5.0 and 6.22 (and of course
WFW 3.11) and it carried over into Win95. I had to free up space on my 2GB
drive in order to convert to FAT32. That, of course, ended drivespace.

It is possible to use drivespace on DOS today if one wants to set up a DOS
virtual machine in Virtual PC 2004 (but who cares). For that matter I ran
Microsoft Bob on a virtual machine on my XP desktop a few months ago. I
obviously had too much time on my hands that day!

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"André Gulliksen" wrote in message
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Colin Barnhorst wrote:
XP is not descended from
Win98 and Drivespace in any flavor is obsolete. Drivespace 3
belonged the Windows 4.x era.

Were there ever a Drivespace 3 for NT 4.0?

Ian Hoare wrote:


Don't you think your analogy is just a tad extreme however? Even in
backwoods old central France, horses haven't been used that much for 60
years, while Win 98 was only introduced 7 years ago. I do feel that there is
a tiny weeny difference.

Win95/98 were required to provide 'legacy' support for real mode 16 bit
DOS items, running in a way no decent modern OS would ever accept. NT
never did, and XP is its latest version. Specifically Drivespace
required a 16 bit real mode driver loaded in config.sys. This is just
NOT allowed any more. And the amount of drivespace around makes it not
worth anyone writing 32 bit support for it


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

Perhaps you should move to a more modern country. While their are no =
stables on my street that are used as stables (but plenty used for 4WDs) =
I regulary catch go past Leilani Lodge (and all the others). My relos =
were involved in the establishment of Royal Randwick in the 1800s.=20

Cuba has also transitioned to a animal based transportation system =
(americian crimes against Cuba has forced them too).
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There are no longer horse stables on my street.
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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Ian Hoare" wrote in message=20
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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:50:14 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

No. Progress. Drivespace just isn't efficient anymore.

I don't agree that not supporting in 2002 what you were pushing as =
the=20
best
thing since sliced bread in 1998 is exactly progress. In many fields, =
it=20
is
compulsory to provide spare parts for items for 10 years after they =
were
last sold. Failing to support a 98 feature in XP seems to me to be =
very=20
much
the sort of arrogance that makes many professionals froth at the =
mouth=20
when
talking about Microsoft. I really would have thought that it wouldn't =
have
been beyond Microsoft's ability to produce a decompressor/decoder.
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Ian Hoare
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