Re: Windows NT vs. 95

[Randy Whittle <whittle@usc.edu>]

At 01:11 PM 9/5/96 -0400, Eugene Fiume wrote:
>Sorry for the naive and slightly off-topic question (my standard
>"I'm a UNIX bozo" apology).  To what extent, if any, are commercial
>16 and 32 bit Windows '95 applications compliant with NT?
>
>Eugene Fiume.

        I'm interested in seeing the response to this as well.

        From what I understand, the very large part of 32-bit Made-for-Win95
apps almost all work just fine under Win NT.  The exceptions I note are
certain thngs like Norton Utils (no under NT, but they now have a version
for NT out), which are the kind of thing that mess around at disk-level,
etc.  But run of the mill software--I'm pretty sure it should work fine
under NT if it was designed to run under 95 (many times, the vendor designs
the software specifically to run on both--for instance, if you install
internet tools like Eudora or Netscape Navigator, the 95/NT install is one
and the same, while there's a different set of stuff installed if you're
running Win 3.x).

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