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To: wily who wrote (8187)	7/19/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Win 2000 is based on the NT kernel, not Win95. It's genuine NT, although from what I read it has the 98 user interface more or less complete. NT 4 has a lot of it, but the system management is different - no device manager, for instance, which is one of the VERY few things I really miss from Win 95. Win 2000 won't play those old DOS games, so I guess you'll really know the old code is gone <g>. In fact, it was never there; W2k isn't an upgrade of 98; it's an upgrade of NT 4.0. What microsoft didn't get into W2k was their plan to integrate the 95/NT device driver architecture, so vendors will still have different architectures to write drivers for. That's nothing like as bad a situation as it used to be, though. Most of the good stuff nowadays has NT drivers. What I don't think W2k has is a no-kidding good old DOS prompt, for those days when you just gotta flash the bios or play that old DOS Wing Commander. That's criminally negligent (at best) IMO, because King Bill is hawking their premier OS, and you gotta boot another OS to configure the machine with. Spots

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