DOS apps and XP (was: Now *that* was strange...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:24:24 -0400):
[... snip story of Arabic conversation in the fP room ...]
>
[... some other guy working with DOS version of filePro ...]
> I finally got him working again and he thinks I'm a miracle man because
> I got his file re-indexed on his new XP machine....  I thought MS-DOS
> was NOT supposed to work on XP... but it was... it did... odd, huh?

Despite long-time rumors to the contrary, Windows XP includes a
DOS emulator, just as previous version of Windows NT have.
(Remember, Windows XP is just a fancy name for NT version 5.1)
I have successfully run the MS-DOS version of filePro 1.2 on my
XP box, so anyone who says that XP can't run old DOS apps
obviously never tried it.

[... snip the rest ...]

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