CompuServe Thread

PAR in WIN95???

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#174833From: Gus GrubbaJun 11, 1995 5:44 PM
I have no clue. I do not work for DPS. I just wrote that one driver for them. I don't have any experience with Win/95. I went straight to NT bypassing it all together. As far as I know, Win/95 is still the same old Windows 3.1 with some fancy interface wrapped around it. It still boots from DOS and still uses the same old config.sys and autoexec.bat (it has to). They are, however, all hidden. You can configure your boot system so you determine your own config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to load a "known" state. Then you boot Win/95 just like you did with the old Windows (by running WIN.COM). That way you can still use your ole'reliable QEMM and everything else. As far as PAR drivers for NT (they are not, they could not (sounds like Cat in the hat) be the same as Wn/95) … I don't know. I do know they have some cool development going on for the new PVR board but I haven't seen it. FTP Site? I did not know they had one… Not much of an answer but… Gus :>
#174995From: DAVID CAMPJun 12, 1995 4:51 PM
>Not much of an answer but… thanks for giving it a shot…. bye David camp
#177396From: Marilyn L. PhillipsJun 26, 1995 11:13 PM
This guy's knowledge of WIN95 (and for that matter NT) are questionable…the config.sys and autoexec.bat files are only used for loading legacy drivers (drivers for which there are not a 32bit version)…in a clean WIN95 sys the Autoexec.bat and config.sys files are completely empty…as for the thought of even considering using a memory manager with WIN95–what absurdity, the whole concept of memory management as you know it from the DOS and WIN 3.1x is moot…get you information from better sources… Jonny Sucrose