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- From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: QPro for Win: A Mega Resource Hog? - BUGS?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 05:24:03 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
- >Also, how does this resources hogging affect Windows?
- >Is it just an asthetic thing that apps should not
- >hogg resources.
- I run QPW effectively on a 386/25 with 8 meg of memory. Though the
- marketing slime say 4 meg is required, 8 is needed to make things
- happy.
-
- >Sorry if this has been asked before but whenever
- >a DOS app gets ported to Windows, there is a worry
- >about how much is has been maimed by the experience.
- QPW is _not_ a port. It is 100% new code. QPW is all C++, QproDos
- is currently in modula-2.
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