Nieminen Mika wrote in message <371dd29a.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>  Not true.
>  Microsoft has to support dos programs because most of people use them
>(games etc). Sometimes those programs just don't work under windows.
>  You also must be able to boot from a floppy disk. Suppose that your
>computer gets infected by a virus. You have to boot from a clean floppy
>and run a virus scanner from that floppy disk. You can't make a clean
>boot to windows from a floppy disk. If you boot to windows, the virus will
>also load itself to memory. If it has some sort of stealth capabilities or
>something like that, there you are.
>  That's why f-prot is still a dos-program.
>

Well, if Win2000 has a file system similar to NT, MS-DOS simply can't read
the partition, right? Even Win98 is a horrible pain when running classic DOS
apps.


>  Have you ever tested the speed of msdos pov (from raw dos) and winpov?
>


Yes. And given enough memory, POVWin is only slightly slower, if at all.

Margus

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