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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 04:12:01 GMT
- Organization: Sam Houston State University
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- In <4f0cgd$kd@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>, Martinus Tels <telsmb@iaehv.iaehv.nl> writes:
- >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.
-
- The please explain why W95 gets almost no improvement in speed running
- native apps on a P6 whereas Unix, WinNT and OS/2 get up to a 245%
- increase? Remember that the P6 is optimized for 32bit code only. For
- reference you can see PC Magazine and PC Computing Jan issues.
-
-
- >
- >>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.
-
- See PC Magazines "crash tests". They show a much different picture. Also I
- had a client that was working in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, system
- totally locked up, pressed reset, no partitions left on either of two 540 HDDs.
-
-
- >
- >>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 has not, it cannot and does not preemptively multitask 16bit apps.
-