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DOS: Reasons to prefer it above Windowz

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Aloone_Jonez:
I was told that it ran a very minimalistic stripped down single tasking NT kernel.

mobrien_12:

quote:Originally posted by ShawnD1:
To setup the sound for games like Duke Nukem, I actually had to look at that sticker to assign the IRQ value of my sound card. That is absolutely pathetic.
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That kind of stuff is not a necessity in DOS anymore.  Take a look at the Allegro libraries.

mobrien_12:


[ August 26, 2004: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
I was told that it ran a very minimalistic stripped down single tasking NT kernel.
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That could be, but it was definately Windows, because it crashed 3 times in a 5-hour period.  :D

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