Re: We should [NOT] > move en masse to Nota Bene (sorry Anne!)

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

I would be delighted to get XY4 to work in XP Mode. However, when I tried I was told by Windows 7
that XP Mode wanted 32-bit programs.

Can you sketch a step-by-step for making XY4 work in XP Mode?


Jon Pareles

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> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:37:01 +0000
> From: Bill Troop 
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
>
> It seems to me, since Win 8 (-64) is already here, and since
> it seems
> to have been designed with virtualization in mind, that we
> ought to
> be trying out strategies for getting XyWrite to work on
> that. It is
> beginning to look like DOS support will never go away. I
> haven't
> tried Win8 yet but I am will have to in the next couple of
> months.
> For what it's worth, though I seem to have found XyWrite in
> XP Mode
> the merest trifle sluggish on a 2009 i-5, it seems
> acceptable on a
> 2011 i-7. One thing I like is that XP mode doesn't seem to
> take up
> much memory, as programs nowadays go. Obviously, I would
> prefer a
> much simpler environment, but this is so easy to deal with,
> it
> doesn't bother me. Regarding something someone said about
> two
> different C: drives, on my default XP Mode setup, the XP "c"
> drive is
> a network drive, so I just assign it another letter, such as
> G. End
> of confusion. I must admit that I have spent almost no time
> at all
> getting this to work.