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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: A happy user! One more I've seen the light story!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.220550.1588@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:05:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.152234.6401@ornl.gov> rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C) writes:
- >
- >I keep seeing people say this but it is completely foreign to my
- >experience. Every session of winos2 I start is independent of any other.
- >The only way to run more than one windows program is with progman or
- >winfile. Does this only work for a seamless windowed winos2?
-
- Seamless WIN-OS2 apps all share a common session. This session is
- started with the first Windos app is started seamlessly, and is closed
- when the last app in the session terminates. There is a check box in
- the application's settings to force it to load into a different
- session if it can not run with other Windows apps.
-
- Full-screen WIN-OS2 apps will all run in separate sessions if they are
- started from the WPS desktop. If you want to run multiple Windows
- apps in the same full-screen session, you must start them from the
- WIN-OS2 session using Program Manager, File Manager (not included -
- import this from a Windows 3.0 installation), or other application
- which can launch programs.
-
- The advantages to running apps in separate sessions is that each one
- is preemptively multitasked from the others. Windows apps are
- cooperatively multitasked within a WIN-OS2 session, but the sessions
- are preemptively multitasked with respect to each other and to other
- applications. There is additional levels of memory protection between
- sessions if you have a poorly-behaved application.
-
- The advantages to running apps in one session is memory. You don't
- need a separate copy of WIN-OS2 running for each application, eating
- up memory and swap space. You also don't need the public clipboard if
- the cutting program and the pasting program are both running in the
- same session. Same for DDE.
-
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