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- From: kdavis@digital.net (Kevin Davis)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 02:44:18 GMT
- Organization: Pseudo-Sloth
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- Luke Jackson <luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- >>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.
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- >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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- What you say may be true but it is still an unusual case when a 16 bit
- app locks up Win95.
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