◆ [Date updated: 2024/06/08(Sat) 14:20:57]
　■Fucking retards that aren't running Win2000. IT'S CAN DO EVERYTHING THAT XP CAN(and faster) AND CAN ALSO RUN OLDER AND MS-DOS SHIT BECAUSE IT STILL RUNS FROM THE MS-DOS SHELL. YOU DUMBASSES
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　└■2K and XP are based on NT, which do not involve DOS in their operation
　　　at all. These systems use the NTVDM, a very restricted virtualization
　　　environment for running DOS programs.
　　　XP is a bit heavier than 2K, but they actually heavily improved DOS
　　　support because it was targeted to people moving from Windows versions
　　　that booted themselves from DOS. The VDM used in 95/98/ME is
　　　significantly less restricted than the NTVDM and has much more access to
　　　hardware (fun fact: technically, it doesn't depend on the system being
　　　booted from DOS, it is virtualized since Windows kicks DOS out during
　　　the boot process... but Windows 9X also spends a bunch of time
　　　pretending it's still DOS with 32-bit code instead of old 16-bit DOS
　　　code, and running DOS programs are allowed by Windows to access hardware
　　　directly for the most part).
　　　
　　　Basically, if you want to run DOS games and Windows stuff, run 95 if you
　　　can (MUCH lighter than 98, lol at driver support though), 98 if you
　　　can't (98SE adds a bunch of shit like USB and a bunch of other drivers).
　　　
　　　That being said, if you're running old Windows programs only, even
　　　16-bit Windows programs, use 2000. It is faster than XP.
　　　Fun shit too -- 95, 98, and ME can't run programs for Windows before
　　　3.0. There aren't many Windows 1/2 programs, but they exist.
　　　ALL 32-bit x86 Windows NT releases, including 32-bit Windows 10, can run
　　　Windows 1 and 2 programs.
　　　
　　　also, I think the quote pushed the line length too long so I got rid of 
　　　it