[ros-kernel] Hummm

[Andrew Greenwood]

I don't really see what your point is.

Windows applications use the Win32 API.

NT has some additional functions that 9x doesn't.

Thus, 9x features a subset of the Win32 API.

Also, Windows 9x applications might want to do low-level stuff. In NT this
is done differently.

I could be wrong though.

But my point is: Windows applications are Windows applications. You can't
*not* implement Win 9x compatibility, as implementing Win32 API for NT will
result in some degree of compatibility with 9x applications.....



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Köpferl" <rob at koepferl.de>
To: "ReactOS Kernel List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Hummm


> Hmm, I can remember a time where apps came as either win95-version or NT
> (3.5.1). Or they came as two exes. one for NT, other for win95. So
concerning
> todays programs, i see no need to be Win9x-compatible. Most apps work on
NT or
> even need NT and don't run on 9x.
>
> But there's another idea:
> One could set the IOPL-Flag to 3 and let all programs access IO-ports.
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