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- From: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul V Hardiman)
- Subject: Re: NT hang?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.172653.25388@uwm.edu>
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <95436add@pony.Ingres.COM> <1935237a@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> <1992Aug19.005634.8357@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:26:53 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Aug19.005634.8357@pony.Ingres.COM> rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT) writes:
- >In article <1935237a@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg) writes:
- >>
- >>My experience is that NT runs rather stable as long as you do not start the
- >>windows or msdos subsystem. As soon as you execute a 16 bit dos or windows
- >>application, NT becomes unstable, runs out of memory etc.
- >>
- >>It's just what microsoft said. This NT release is ONLY a development platform
- >>for 32 bit applications. Neither the DOS nor the Windows subsystem is finished
- >>or fully testet.
- >>
- >
- >How are we supposed to run the development tools without opening a window?
- >This thing that says "MS-DOS prompt" actually runs 'cmd.exe'. I'm still
- >not sure if this is a true DOS window or just capable of executing DOS
- >apps, but I know I have to open it to use the debuggers and compiler.
- >When you say its stable if you do not run the windows subsystem, I sure
- >hope you mean the Win 3.1 subsystem!
- >
-
-
- My experience has been that you can run any of the following types
- of programs from the NT DOS window:
-
- 1) Non-GUI NT programs (e.g. the NT compilers)
- 2) GUI NT programs (e.g. the NT terminal program)
- 3) DOS programs (e.g. Vedit+ editor)
- 4) Windows 3.x programs (e.g. Excel)
-
- You don't need to know what kind of program you're trying to run -
- NT takes care of this.
-
- My experience has also been that NT is pretty stable for such an
- early version of the product. I've been able to hang it only once.
- (But I'm not using it intensively yet.)
-
- Some programs I've been able to run under NT: Excel 3.0, Corel Draw 2.1,
- the NT compilers, Vedit+ editor, CodePad editor, and a few others I can't
- recall right now. Some that don't work are: WordPerfect for Windows,
- PageMaker 4.0, ProComm+ for Windows.
-
- Paul Hardiman
- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
-