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Is anyone aware of any conflicts with Windows ME?

aker at networksplus.net aker at networksplus.net
Fri Sep 15 17:21:27 EDT 2000 
This may be of some concern to some, it is to me.

Windows Me, PC Magazine, Sept 1, 2000 , p33:

"Crucial under-the-hood changes include the removal of the Windows9x
option to restart or boot to the MS-DOS command prompt(DOS
applications are still usable in DOS windows, however)......


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:15:08 -0400, "Tim Peters"
<tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:

>> I'll be receiving my new PC shortly and it is coming with Windows
>> ME preloaded.  Has there been any testing with Python and ME.  I'd
>> really hate to crash it as soon as I get it.
>
>We've had only one beta tester report on Windows ME, using a prerelease of
>Python 2.0b1.  Python installed fine, and all of the standard test suite
>passed *except* for the new mmap module.  This appears to be a bug in
>Microsoft's stuff, but since we don't have a copy of ME yet it's darned hard
>to say.
>
>However, since you seem to believe that a Microsoft operating system
>crashing is something you can avoid, I'll assume you're a pretty new user of
>Microsoft operating systems <wink>.  In that case, there's not much chance
>you'll be *trying* to use the new mmap module (which provides an interface
>to memory-mapped files, in case you're not a new user).  Even if you do, it
>doesn't crash Windows when it fails, it just raises a Python exception.
>
>windows-*loves*-being-rebooted-ly y'rs  - tim
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