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- From: Lawrence Reid <tsa@earth.nettrek.net.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Optimizing 16 bit environment for \Win32s
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:50:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Queensland
- Message-ID: <4e17sn$dih@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>
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-
- lshirey@starnetinc.com (Lars Shirey) writes:
- > 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
- >
- Most likely you know this, but there are different versions
- of WIN32s floating around(so I have heard). We have had similar problems
- at our organisation, but as we are only in beta, we are hoping that future version
- of the Visual product range address this problem.
-
- Rgds
-
- Larry
-