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- From: bee@sfu.ca (Jeremy Bee)
- Newsgroups: alt.2600,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm
- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 03:54:19 GMT
- Organization: skep
- Message-ID: <4gjdhs$4ns@tofu.alt.net>
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- In article <4ggaph$dvs@ventnor.mcom.com>, vis_cah@shsu.edu wrote:
- >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...
- >
- >Allan Hall vis_cah@shsu.edu
- >Falcon Technologies http://www.shsu.edu/~vis_cah
- >Team OS/2 BBS: 409-291-3322
- >
- >..
- >--
- >--------------------------------------------------------
- >Brian Hernacki mailto:bhern@netscape.com
- >Usenet foot-soldier Netscape Communications
- >disclaimer := "I speak only for myself, not Netscape"
-
- Yeah, this guy is such a genius and OS/2 is so superior that he stupidly
- posts his pithy comment 4 times over. Brilliant.
-
- You can tell the OS/2ites are desparate when they don't even try to debate.
- ONe person posts in at least some detail why Win95 does not crash or lock on
- 16 bit apps very often and all he has to say is the equivalent of "Oh Yeah!?"
-
- Brilliant.
-
- Jeremy
-