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From
03/03/2011 16:29:01
 
 
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03/03/2011 07:14:19
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MySQL
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01502377
Message ID:
01502562
Views:
93
>>I'm not certain, but I don't think either FoxPro DOS or FoxPro 2.x for Windows works on any 64-bit version of Windows, only 32-bit versions.
>
>I wouldn't expect them to - the DOS versions were using the Watcom extender or some such memory trick, and FPW2.6 had troubles even before this.
>
>Which is why we have DOSBox.

But of course even w/o the DOS extender issues you won't be able to run a 16-bit app w/o a 16-bit subsystem (which 64-bit versions of Windows doesn't supply). Of course it's amusing to see such a program running under a Win32 VM... Win64 running Win32 VM which runs a Win16 VM to run app... Perhaps the wierdest part is despite having several layers of VMs, the end result is likely to run faster than it did natively on older hardware...
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