Re: Win95 and games: good news...

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic

Article #214

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Previous Next

#214

From: sas... Bill Arnette
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 00:00

27 lines
2034 bytes

The Stoner <mxs...@hertz.njit.edu> writes:

>On 19 Apr 1995, JORDAN SPENSER AARON wrote:

>> Sure it can run several, multithreaded applications at the same time.  

>Everything I'v heard about Win95 says it is still a 16 bit (at heart) 
>coopertive multitasking os.  Sure it will run serveral apps, but it 
>doesn't pre-emt, so (from what I understand) if a WIN95 app locks up while 
>calculating or something, the whole system will lock up, since the program has 
>control over the processor.  (correct me if I am wrong) Also, I would still get 
Only Windows 3.x apps are copperatively multitasked and they all run in their
own VM which is pre-emptively multitasked with Win32 apps and DOS VMs .
If a Windows 3.x app hangs, it only hangs the other Windows 3.x apps, not the
Win32 or DOS apps.

I can provide the exact section of the Windows 95 Resource Kit documentation
explaining the architecture of WIn95 if you like.

Cheers,
Bill
--
Bill Arnette                      sas...@unx.sas.com
Portable Debugger Development     ...!mcnc!sas!saswta
SAS Institute Inc.                (919)677-8000 x6193  
SAS Campus Drive - R2275          (919)677-4444 (fax)  
Cary, NC 27513

Technical Details

Message-ID: <saswta.798607703@sas.com>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3n1n10$ipp@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <3n3j7a$12em@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu> <3n3o6f$ono@hermes.louisville.edu> <3n42d4$6u9@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>  <Pine.ULT.3.91.950421075704.3592A-100000@hertz.njit.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

From: sas...@unx.sas.com (Bill Arnette)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/23
Message-ID: <saswta.798607703@sas.com>
X-Deja-AN: 101357115
x-nntp-posting-host: terrapin.unx.sas.com
sender: ne...@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events)
references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3n1n10$ipp@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <3n3j7a$12em@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu> <3n3o6f$ono@hermes.louisville.edu> <3n42d4$6u9@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>  <Pine.ULT.3.91.950421075704.3592A-100000@hertz.njit.edu>
organization: SAS Institute Inc.
newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.games
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message