This "official document from Microsoft" certainly doesn't seem all that believable -- after all, once you take the drivers and user-mode support out of Win2K, what is the point of having it at all? The security vulnerabilities talked about by others here also make you wonder.
The stuff about the bitmaps on startup and "poking" the registers directly seems like junk to me. Has anyone actually used the word "poke" since BASIC anyway?
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This "official document from Microsoft" certainly doesn't seem all that believable -- after all, once you take the drivers and user-mode support out of Win2K, what is the point of having it at all? The security vulnerabilities talked about by others here also make you wonder.
The stuff about the bitmaps on startup and "poking" the registers directly seems like junk to me. Has anyone actually used the word "poke" since BASIC anyway?