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- From: Frederic LACHASSE <lachass@worldnet.fr>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Win95 vs. NT4 for Visual C++ 4.0
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 21:39:51 +0000
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- Choose NTW. It's far more reliable, and developpement can be a messy
- business with debuggers stopping brutally debugged applications. Windows
- 95 has good protections against evil 32 programs, less with DOS in
- virtual 86 machines and few with 16 bits erratic Windows apps. It is a
- result of allowing maximum compatibility with old DOS/Win3x programs.
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- On the other hand, NTW kernel is designed to be as reliable as mainframe
- operating systems and used to run strategic programs with hundreds of
- concurrent users. This kernel is still a little young compared to old
- battered UNIX, but I've already got programs running amok and eating up
- whatever memory they find, stopping other stubborn processes with
- halberds (i.e. pview.exe), mostly NTVDMs running Win3x applications
- without crashing other applications. Moreover, all memory, resources,
- files are properly released and closed.
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- In real-life: sometimes (less than once a week), strange behaviour of my
- PC (like some resource seems not to be released) makes me reboot my PC
- for more safety. Sometimes then, during shutdown, a pop-up warns about
- some malfunctions, but the PC nevertheless finishes shutdown normally.
- Even rarer, I've got 2 crashes followed by an automatic reboot. I must
- tell though to have tested a Win3x application (named Rally!) that
- completely freeze NT 3.51 when resizing its window. It's the only cases
- of complete hang I've met with NT.
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- In fact, NT is so efficient and reliable that you get used to having
- always a dozen of open applications like editors, file manager, tools,
- prompts and emulator sessions to hosts. I don't care to launch my
- offline news reader to retrieve new messages and mail and then start
- debugging my programs. Doing that with Windows 3.x is asking for
- trouble...
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- Frederic LACHASSE (ECP 86)
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