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- From: lshirey@starnetinc.com (Lars Shirey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Optimizing 16 bit environment for \Win32s
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 14:32:56 GMT
- Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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- To All,
-
- Our organization resently releases a 32 bit app (developed in C++)
- utilizing \Win32s for users who don't yet have 95 or NT. The app works
- very well when run on its native platform. 80%+ of all the technically
- related help desk call have been traced to users running under Win
- 31or WFWG311 whose system are in terrible disarry, small swap files or
- not utilizing memory as best as they could (e.g. never ran memmaker).
-
- I've been given the lovely task of putting together a series of
- fastfax documents to walk the user through the steps involved to "tune
- up" their system in preparation of running 32 bit apps in their 16 bit
- worlds.
-
- In the process of my research I was told by an "engineer" over at MSDN
- that \Win32s was never intended as an end user enhancement but instead
- developed as a developer's tool back when developers where balking at
- the idea of having to get a copy of NT if they were to develop 32 Bit
- apps back in the early day before 95 was stable. Was this an acurate
- statement??
-
- Needless to say TechNet & MSDN have no single source of documentation
- similar to what I need (although with a lot of cutting and pasting the
- information does exist :-) What I can't seem to find are suggestions
- on how to tweak the system.ini specific for running Win32 apps. Anyone
- out there have some suggestions of system.ini setting changes to help
- users with our minimum requirements of 8Meg/386 machines and permenant
- swap files??
-
- TIA,
-
- Lars
-
-