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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: SoftPC Error Message:
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.063314.12530@microsoft.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 06:33:14 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1498@sousa.ltn.dec.com>
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1498@sousa.ltn.dec.com> perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins) writes:
- >Several times while using the July release of Windows-NT on an Intel
- >80486 machine I have seen a message box pop up indicating that there
- >was an error xxx in file xxx where the file was named with a name like
- >D:\xx\softpc\xxx.
- >
- >I did not write down the exact text of the error message or file, but I
- >now find it curious that I would be executing a part of NT that had to
- >do with the SoftPC stuff. I though that SoftPC code only ran on
- >non-Intel machines.
- >
- >Can someone at Microsoft clear this up?
- >- When running NT on Intel machines what if any role does SoftPC code
- > play?
- >
- >My understanding is that Win-16 apps run in their own process and
- >communicate with the win-32 kernel, while Win-16 apps running on
- >non-Intel machines a running as a SoftPC process which is communicating
- >with the win-32 kernel.
-
- Yes, this is weird to me as well. We use the v86 mode on x86 machines,
- and Insignia's technology on RISC machines - if you can be more
- specific about the condistions and reports, I'll ask around
-
- Alistair
-