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Old 04-29-2014, 11:52 AM   #61
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I don't think it's even possible to run 16-bit programs on 64-bit PCs, regardless of it being supported in the 32-bit Ed. of the same OS.
It is possible. 16-bit support is in the operating system, not the hardware.
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I don't think it's even possible to run 16-bit programs on 64-bit PCs, regardless of it being supported in the 32-bit Ed. of the same OS.
I do it all the time. I use DOS BOX using a program D-Fend Reloaded to control it. DOS BOX is a little difficult by itself to get all the emulation right. D-Fend Reloaded lets you run a bunch of instances of DOSBOX with different parameters. For graphics I use VBDOS but QBasic will also work. Most, perhaps all, DOS Games can be made to run in DOSBOX although I don't use it for games. You can even dictate the emulation speed if that is important to get the timing right.

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I meant aside from within a virtual machine
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I meant aside from within a virtual machine
Well, actually in a 64bit machine the OS is emulating a 32 bit machine even to run 32 bit code only it is automatic inside the OS. A 32 bit machine uses a built in emulation mode to run 16 bit apps. Unfortunately there is no 16 bit emulation directly from 64 bits so dosbox runs as a emulator for 16 bit while the OS is running it in 32 bit emulation mode.

Don't discount a virtual machine, they can be quite useful.

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Like the security flaw just discovered in Internet Explorer, for instance. From a Reuters news item dated yesterday:

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Microsoft Corp is rushing to fix a bug in its widely used Internet Explorer web browser after a computer security firm disclosed the flaw over the weekend, saying hackers have already exploited it in attacks on some U.S. companies.

PCs running Windows XP will not receive any updates fixing that bug when they are released, however, because Microsoft stopped supporting the 13-year-old operating system earlier this month.
Full story here.
Microsoft has officially failed to carry through with the XPocalypse!!

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...ay-flaw-patch/
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Microsoft has officially failed to carry through with the XPocalypse!!

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...ay-flaw-patch/
Wow. Interesting article, and what a nice surprise that "surprising reversal of policy" was. It makes sense, given how much havoc hackers could create with an insecure XP IE.
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Wow. Interesting article, and what a nice surprise that "surprising reversal of policy" was. It makes sense, given how much havoc hackers could create with an insecure XP IE.
Regardless, Microsoft had claimed they were ending support, so it should no longer be their problem.

Apparently, they will continue to offer bugfixes, but only for really major bugs. Which... come to think of it... are all of them.

I daresay most security bugs can be seen as major.
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lol I've been avoiding IE for a bit waiting for the fix, glad they're doing it for XP too.
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lol I've been avoiding IE for a bit waiting for the fix, glad they're doing it for XP too.
Shouldn't you be avoiding IE in general, the laggards?
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No, why would I?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/18552..._explorer_ever
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co...hated_so_much/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32372...rnet-explorer/

Because IE lags behind every other browser and breaks web standards in the process (requiring web developers to build a special version of their website for each version of IE, plus the main one for everything else), supports ActiveX (BAD!), is feature-poor and lacks the kind of extensibility of both Chrome and Firefox.

Though in all fairness, IE11 Gives Microsoft A Shot At Browser Redemption. But they have been pathetic for so long that every other browser out there has done something weird called innovating. Recent versions of IE may have improved core rendering to the point where it is now actually possible to browse normally with it, but the competition has been developing cool new features instead of recreating their whole browser as standards-compliant, and in the meantime tons of people have jumped ship.

And I think I will still keep Chrome/FF until Microsoft creates a linux version of IE that I can sync settings to. And allow syncing on Win7. And profiles.

And until Microsoft stops lying about whether or not an HTTPS connection is really secure. See HERE and more importantly HERE.

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I'v never had any problems
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There are features in IE to commend it although HTML5 isn't one of them. One interesting feature of IE is if you copy a web page by select/copy and then paste it in a word processor it will actually paste RTF instead of HTML. Some word processor don't understand pasting HTML by all will read RTF.

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I'll be sure to remember that next time I need to copy-paste fom a browser into a flawed word processor.

I assume this computer cannot run either Word or LibreOffice, but then I wonder why. Or why I'm using it.

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