From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-04 09:17:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.digex.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C5EC245.F735B0CC@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Followup-To: poster Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:18:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1012843122 66.75.151.160 (Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:18:42 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:18:42 PST Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19593 Date: 2002-02-04T17:18:42+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > Apparently I have missed the MS marketing hype about XP. It seems to > be derived from NT, which is good. Does it also run games well (Myst > III, in particular)? Myst III runs fine under Win2000. There's actually very few (modern) games that don't. NT4 didn't run games because it didn't have DirectX. What tends not to run under 2000 is programs that access I/O ports directly, like special hardware. (OT, so follow up to me.) -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. The opposite of always is sometimes. The opposite of never is sometimes.