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- From: Luke Jackson <luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 15:51:16 +0000
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- In article <4f0cgd$kd@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>, Martinus Tels
- <telsmb@iaehv.iaehv.nl> writes
- >Lee Huggett <Lee@burst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >>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.
-
- A 16-bit Windows program will crash the entire system if it locks up
- while accessing any 16-bit portion of the Windows 95 kernel. What you
- are thinking of, I think, is that direct access to the file entries
- causes Windows to bring up an alert box.
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- Luke Jackson
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