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- From: Lee Huggett <Lee@burst.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
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- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 96 12:33:35 GMT
- Organization: Lee's House
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- Martinus Tels (telsmb@iaehv.iaehv.nl) wrote:
- : Lee Huggett <Lee@burst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- :
- : >Yes fine I can see the point of keeping in old 16 bit code for compatability,
- : >it makes sense.
- : >But don't you think it is then wrong to tout your product as fully 32 bit
- : >and basically lie to the public???
- :
- : Win95 IS fully...as an OS. The actual operational part of it (the command
- : core) is 32-bit. It's just the interface to 16-bit apps which is 16-bit. If
- : you aren't running any 16-bit apps, Win95 is completely 32-bit.
- :
-
- So youre saying that the OS is 32 bit except the part that interfaces with the
- 16bit apps, which is part of the OS yes?
-
- OK that is nit picking, the point I was making was that M$ touted the OS as
- fully 32 and it isn't (however small that bit is)
-
-
- : >if that 16 bit app should crash then the whole system will lock
- : >up.
- :
- : You are right about the cooperative multitasking. But if a 16-bit app
- : crashes, it usuually does NOT lock the entire system. The only complete
- : systemlock I know of that such an app can cause is if the app in question
- : succeeds in sending commands directly to the hardware (has to be an
- : EXTREMELY badly written app; Win5 can block such access in most cases). In
- : any case, I personally have never experienced a system lockup due to a
- : 16-bit app failing.
-
- I have had Win95 lock up badly on several occasions, simply because I was using
- a 16 bit app (regular win3.x program) which, while hogging the processor, crashed
- and left me with a locked up system.
-
- This was purely to do with the 16 bit app forcing win95 to coopreatively
- multitask and the grabbing the processor.
-
-
-
- : >Wasn't this the problem with win3.x that Win95's "Multitasking" was supposed to
- : >sort out????
- :
- : Yes, and for the most part it has (in my experience that is; I don't know
- : about others of course).
-
- It only solves the multitasking problem if you using 32 bit apps, which for the
- most part apps aren't 32 bit. (yet :-)
-
- Lee
-
-