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- From: kitchin@avo.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Subject: Re: A neat idea for speeding up seamless WIN-OS2
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- References: <1992Nov18.173503.23362@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39:39 GMT
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- Startup up progman (or any other windows program) in seamless mode does
- speed up the starting of future seamless programs. It is for a really
- simple reason. When you start up your first windows program, OS/2 must
- start up a copy of Windows itself. This takes time (if you used Windows
- under DOS you'll have an idea of how long it takes, a few seconds on my
- system which is pretty fast). When you startup a program seamless while
- another is already running (unless they specifies a separate session),
- Windows is already running and so the startup is faster. Each program
- that is marked for a separate session as well as each full screen Windows
- session require their own copy of Windows running and take the usual
- startup time. If all programs running under windows terminate, then
- that copy of windows also terminates and the next window's program you
- run will pay the startup cost again.
-
- It makes sense when you know what it is doing. I first learned about
- it from an IBM person who was showing us some stuff. I *think* I may
- have seen it in some tips document but I'm not sure.
-