Markus Becker wrote:

> Right, NT 4.0 SP4 S3 card, 1152*864*16M, but a cursor should be a cursor
> and an icon should be an icon (and a rose should be a .. oops).
> Or are they different in 9x/NT?

Yes.  As soon as you move slightly below the surface of the glass,
the similarity pretty much ends.  
Perhaps you've read lately how M$ has to rethink their Windoze2000 
approach.  The original idea was to get everybody away from that yucky,
buggy 32bit-shell-over-16bit-M$DOS to the yucky, but more stable 32bit
OS.
The problem is that 95% of software (especially non-M$ games and edu
s/w) 
doesn't run on NT.  Oops!  M$ is still trying to decide whether they can 
get away with pushing this over on everyone.

I myself, just spent a $500 developer call to learn that printing 
is broken in Win9x.  M$ acknowledges this.  There is a workaround.

Video is very different in 9x/NT, which is why many of the
aforementioned
games don't work.  A manufacturer writing video drivers (which includes
cursor handling) has to start from the ground up for both OSes.

Take my Imagine 128.  On NT, it installs and works.  On 95, it installs
all these cool toys to go with it; multiple desktops, virtual desktops
dynamic resizing of the screen, etc.  Same thing with my Diamond Fire.


> Markus
> --

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