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From: benoitm@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Benoit Menendez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Windows 2.x and 286 - what's the difference
Message-ID: <910002@hpmwbam.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 23:04:46 GMT
References: <386@fauern.UUCP>
Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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> Who can answer the following questions to me?
> 
>    Does the 286 version run in protected mode of the 80286?

NO

>    Does it support multitasking?

NO

>    Will all MS Windows Applications run on this special version?

YES

Starting from version 2.1 the regular PC/XT/AT version of Windows is called
Windows 286. The 386 version is still called Windows 386. Microsoft changed the
name so people are warned that there are some performance problems on slow 8086
or 80186 machines.

Hope this helps...

	Benoit.

BTW: To start the MKS ksh (or better yet login.exe) in a window, just create a
PIF file with enough memory allocated.

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