Re: Windows 95

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To Steve Turnbull:
Well, I have heard about all this problems with the support, but I am 
currently talking about the practical things only. I did the installation of 
95 approximately for 40 machines (both Japanese ad US versions) and I did  
problems but finally it always was caused by unreliable DMA controller or 
hardware problem or IO conflict. OK, I've never worked with more than 2 years 
old BIOSes, but the major problems were with Plug-n-Play or better 
Plug-and-Pray Systems.ASUSTeK Motherboards with Triton Chipset for instance 
have trouble with Sound Blaster under Windows (3.1 as well) that is caused by 
Videocards or their drivers. It was reported by ASUS people. MACH64 is fine, 
MGA needs new drivers, Cirrus Logics is bad forever, ET4000/W32 is OK. Other 
problem is with EIDE controllers. If you are using integrated into mother 
board controllers, you are more or less safe, but with IDE PCI paddle cards 
you are on your own. All this has nothing to do with the 95, WIN3.1 is also 
not working. 
Second. There is a good chance that if you have your system up and running 
Windows 3.1, loaded with software that looks suspicious in terms of 
compatibility with 95, after installation of Windows 95 at the same 
subdirectory, everything will continue to breathe. I did some weird 
experiments with cyrillic drivers, and video capture cards. Even EEPROM 
programmer - add-on card, with DOS-based software that writes directly to 
hardware, was working, at least from the command prompt.
About OS coexistents: Sorry never tried OS2, but at my home PC I have Linux, 
Win95 and Windows NT running almost without any problems. Actually there are 
problems, but with Windows NT: because I am using old AHA1540 and CMD PCI IDE 
Card, the last one being recognized by the system as SCSI adapter, so my HP  
SCSI HDD is always considered by Windows NT as C-Drive, so setup was not 
straightforward. 

to: Norihide Kise
Basically there is no need to use separate partition for Windows95 and 
DOS/WIN3.1
You can just install it to separate subdirectories and they will coexists. 
Older DOS probably will be gone but it should not be a problem. US version of 
Windows 95 (or may be it was beta) had the option "boot the previous version 
of DOS", in Japanese version this option is not here anymore or needs some 
work around - I don't know. As to partitioning - the best way is to make a 
partition by OS that will be installed on it. Beware though.
Yuri.