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- From: jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jon Mellott)
- Subject: Re: Win32s and Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.125148.23396@eng.ufl.edu>
- Keywords: Win32s
- Sender: news@eng.ufl.edu (Usenet Diskhog System)
- Organization: EE Dept at UF
- References: <8ggDPB1w165w@cyrcle.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:51:48 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <8ggDPB1w165w@cyrcle.uucp>, lothar@cyrcle.uucp (Bob Trembley) writes:
- |> I have read that the DLLs/VxD to run Win32s under DOS/Windows will be on the
- |> Beta-release CD of NT (in September I believe?)
- |>
- |> I have a question: Is Microsoft going to release upgrades for the Windows
- |> 3.1 Program Manager, File Manager and other apps to use Win32s?
- |>
- I'm not affiliated with MS, but I'll bet that they won't do that -- at least
- initially. Those bundled applets, Program Manager, and File Manager probably
- don't have a whole lot to gain from being Win32 rather than Win16 apps.
-
- |> How much (if any) of what we know of as DOS/Windows 3.1 today will be using
- |> Win32s in 3 months, 6 months, etc...? Will this become the desired
- |> "platform" for Windows apps?
- |>
- I suspect that the big graphics packages like Illustrator, CorelDRAW!, and
- MicroGrafix Designer will take advantage of the enhanced Win32 GDI as soon
- as possible. The big apps will probably jump quicker than the smaller apps.
- For example, apps which want to use a lot of memory will jump so that they
- can play in a 32-bit address space; some of these might be AutoCAD, Matlab,
- Mathematica, spreadsheets, and database packages.
-
- The big question that I have is how many companies are going to want to
- maintain as many as three versions of their apps for the various Windows
- platform? For example, one could find oneself in the position of maintaining
- a Win16 version, a Win32s version, and another Win32 version which takes
- advantage of NT stuff like multithreading. The big stuff will probably just
- immediately jump to the high-end platform (e.g., Mathematica, AutoCAD),
- but things like word processors may stay Win16 and (probably) Win32s
- without taking advantage of any of the features found only in NT.
-
- Jon Mellott
- High Speed Digital Architecture Laboratory
- University of Florida
- (jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu)
-