[40] in winnt
Re: Windows NT & 95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Thu Aug 28 09:28:02 1997
In-Reply-To: <9708271513.AA29210@arachnophobia.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:32:25 -0400
To: clabelle@MIT.EDU
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: winnt@MIT.EDU
Cathy,
one of the changes Microsoft made in Windows NT 4 was to move the
graphics kernel out of the "protected" and therefore slower memory space of
the OS and out into the the more unprotected but faster memory space used
by all applications. One of the reasons they did this was so that NT would
play games well. I wouldn't worry as much as maybe you are now about that
kind of compatibility. BUT, I would also go ahead and do the dual boot
thing you describe in order to keep the flexibility and backwards
compatibility.
To install Windows 95, just install it. The effect of this will be a
system that can't boot into NT anymore. But then you can fix that by
repairing the booting portion of NT. Microsoft has published directions on
how to do that at this url:
http://www.microsoft.com/KB/ARTICLES/Q136/5/47.HTM
I have gone through this procedure myself and it is reasonably painless.
You must have an up-to-date Emergency Repair Disk, the making or updating
of which is described in the KB article.
Rob
At 11:13 AM -0400 8/27/97, clabelle@MIT.EDU wrote:
>I am currently running Windows NT 4.0 on a 200 MHz
>Pentium Pro machine at home. I realized when I requested
>NT as the operating system when I bought the computer that
>there were certain hardware and software compatibility
>problems, but NT was the better OS for the Pentium Pro
>processor. I recently became interested in purchasing
>a game for my computer (Freecell dulls after a while), but
>I know that many (if not most) games will not run on NT.
>Do you have a listing of games that _will_ run on NT?
>Also, is it possible to have both NT and Windows95
>installed on my computer? If so, then I could boot 95
>when I wanted to run a game or something else incompatible
>with NT. I use my computer mostly for research (I am a
>grad student here), but it would be nice to be able to
>run a game every once in a while.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Cathy Labelle
>clabelle@mit.edu
>----
>NOTE: This message was sent using a WWW form. The address clabelle@mit.edu
>was typed manually, and may easily be incorrect.
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Rob Smyser
I/S Computing Help Desk, MIT, 11-226, 617.253.1358
smyser@mit.edu
