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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by Endy on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:20AM (#16855434)
>Edit? You've been gone awhile. Edit has never been released on any x64 platform of Windows, AFAIK. Why? Because it's a 16-bit application! NTVDM, the 16/32-bit DOS and 16 bit Windows emulator only runs on 32-bit Windows. WoW64, the 32-bit Windows emulator for x64 Windows, does not run 16 bit applications.

I only use a 32-bit OS and a 32-bit processor for Win7. If it doesn't work in x64, you've just given me a reason to never "upgrade". Then again, if my computer didn't throw a hissy fit over it, I'd be using FreeDOS as my primary OS. Either that or just get an old MS-DOS 6.2 installed.

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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by suprfnk on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:45AM (#16856065)
Interesting, can I ask what kind of work you do? I'm assuming programming, what kind of programming do you primarily do?
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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by Endy on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:09AM (#16858418)
Actually, I'm just a teacher/office admin/etc for work - by passion and hobby I'm a writer but that hasn't turned into money and likely never will.

I don't do programming and never have, the closest I ever came was a brief scrape with BASIC back in the days before Windows. I do some web design, but not too much anymore because I don't do Javascript and I don't like off-page CSS (I sometimes use inline, but that's about it).

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