XPost: alt.windows-xp 
 From: efflandt@xnet.com 
  
 On 9 Jul 2004 19:36:06 -0700, Harlan Osier  wrote: 
 > Some of my old virus and worm programs are not XP-compatible, but IMO 
 > a good OS should be able to run all virus and worm programs. 
  
 You have the cart before the horse.  How can you expect an ancient 
 virus/worm program to know the file system, registry, and what files are 
 safe, for an OS that did not exist when they were written? 
  
 So it is not necessarily that XP cannot run the programs, it is that the 
 programs would be totally clueless what to do in XP. 
  
 For example I had AutoCAD Lite for Win3.x.  It would run under Win95, but 
 had trouble with any files that referred to long filenames, because all it 
 knew was 8.3 character filenames (longer DOS/Win filenames did not exist 
 when it was written). 
  
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