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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!johnhall
- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: Running a app several times
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.011924.5002@microsoft.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 01:19:24 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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- In article AXEL@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de writes:
- | Hi everyone
- | Can you run an app several times (parallel) on NT? I think, 3.1 doesn't and I
- | see some problems like interapp-communications.
- | And another one: I read that you can open several windows per app. Is this like
- | in 3.1 several windows in one large window or can you move them free on the
- | desktop?
-
- You are mistaken about Windows 3.1.
- Windows 3.1 will run multiple copies of the same app (fire up
- several copies of notepad, for example.)
- Further, a Windows application can create multiple windows that
- run around on the desktop (top level windows). Some dialog boxes
- are like this, others aren't. It is always an apps choice.
-
- Windows NT adds pre-emptive scheduling, seperate input queues,
- and a whole mess of things that Unix users wondered why OS/2
- didn't provide + several things that not all Unix machines
- have yet. All in all, enough to make an old Unix bigot weep
- for joy.
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