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First post, by redknight4

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Wanted to mess aorund with win nt 3.51 with out having to dual boot a laptop and finding out the laptop is too new for it and no drivers exist for the hardware for win nt 3.51.

I was wandering since win 3.1 & 3.11 work under dosbox does win nt 3.51 work if not what emu will other than virtual pc 2007(doesn't work on xp home)

Reply 7 of 19, by dh4rm4

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Win NT isn't a mere DOS. It's a scheduled, paged, memory protected, tiered security-driven multi-user OS that was designed to be reasonably device and CPU independent. There were even versions of NT 3.51 and 4.00 (different HALs actually) made to run DEC(Compaq/HP) Alpha machines which had an entirely different CPU architecture (some of which incidentally we now use as parts of SMT, SMP and other forms of parallelism) to the Intel 386/486/early Pentium of the day. It uses more resources than some of the most complex games ever developed so DOSBox would likely need an overhaul to offer a far more robust and complete emulation to support NT.

Reply 8 of 19, by butterfly

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As long as it doesn't have to use the page file Wink

I don't know. I can run Windows 95 inside DOSBox and I can run some programs.

Windows NT isn't Win9x.

I'm not saying DOSBox can run Windows NT since it can run Windows 95.

Reply 10 of 19, by DosFreak

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NT 3x/4x would probably work fine with IDE support. I think wd? released a patch but I don't know if he tested NT with it.

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Reply 13 of 19, by Dominus

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I'm not saying DOSBox can run Windows NT since it can run Windows 95.

Then why start on that at all in a NT thread? It's useless and annoying, especially if the thread then gets cluttered with more off topic replies. Can anyone of the ops clean this up?

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Reply 16 of 19, by h-a-l-9000

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Hm too bad we'll never know what it wants...
This is with old-style IDE port.
Dynamic core makes it furthest, normal and full crash earlier. Setup stage.

In Reactos the error code means SMSS didn't initialize in time but no idea how similar it is to NT 4.

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Reply 18 of 19, by h-a-l-9000

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Of course you as CPU core specialist 😉

Some time ago the Reactos people switched to Pentium as minimum system requirement (the cmpxchg instruction I think - Internet Exlorer 5 on Win95 needs that too).

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