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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 15:37:23 -0800
- Organization: Sam Houston State University
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- In <4feccs$e5i@ddi2.digital.net>, kdavis@digital.net (Kevin Davis) writes:
- >Reply-To: kdavis@digital.net
- >
- >Luke Jackson <luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- >What you say may be true but it is still an unusual case when a 16 bit
- >app locks up Win95.
-
- Yep, about as unusual as the sun rising in the morning...
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- Allan Hall vis_cah@shsu.edu
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