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   Message 986 of 2,762   
   Torbjorn Mohn to Gaylen Hintz   
   BBBS/D and Netfoss   
   19 Aug 14 21:55:36   
   
   > For reasons unknown to us Torbjorn Mohn said thus to Rudi Timmermans:   
      
   >> Also Windows 7 and 8 in 32 bit versions requires special   
   >> configuration to run 16 bit software, since this is disabeled   
   >> as standard. I have unfortunatly no way of testing, I haven't   
   >> run 32 bit Windows since Windows 7 was introduced.   
      
   > Well, I'm not a BBBS sysop but I can tell you that I've for a couple years   
   >have successfully run netfoss and net2bbs.exe with a Proboard /DOS bbs.  Worke   
   > just fine here with no modifications other than setting the environment   
   > variables to point to the bbs directory. :)   
      
   Windows 7 and WIndows 8 appearently has different ways of handling 16 bit   
   NTVDMs, As far as I'm concerned 32 bits Windows 8.x requires 16-bit Application   
   Support to be enabled, which it is NOT by default:   
      
   http://tinyurl.com/o2eyunu   
      
   IS this wrong?   
      
   rgds   
   Torbjørn   
      
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