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- From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
- Subject: Re: os/2-the user's view
- Message-ID: <weinkam.713760866@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug13.1479.4914@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:54:26 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
-
- >That's just one of my beefs. There are several ways you can run Windows
- >apps under OS/2 2.0. the highlights are:
-
- >a) Run them in a separate screen group (as you do). This assigns all
- >Windows apps to one VDM which runs modified Windows 3.0 code to implement
- >the parameter checking of Windows 3.1. Unfortunately, the same old GDI of
- >Windows 3.0 is employed to there is no performance enhancment and you get
- >performance degradation based on OS/2 overhead to manage the VDM (thunking
- >- 16-bit to 32-bit conversion).
-
- >c) Run Windows in an OS/2 DOS VDM (open a DOS VDM and start Windows).
- >Not exactly recommended and certainly not a commonplace way of running
- >Windows apps.
-
- It is my understanding that when you start win-os2 full screen that it
- first opens a dos vdm and runs windows in the vdm. Thus a) and c) would
- be identical.
-
- Can anyone confirm or deny this?
-
- James
-