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- >> But Windows 3.1 can not be used because it doesn't use a flat memory model.
- >
- >XMS *is* a flat memory model.
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- Yeh, XMS is, but Windows only uses up to 16 Meg. Plus, it can not do any thing with the memory
- in 32 bit! XMS is used to full advantage under DOS only, and it should stay that way. XMS has
- no place with the new 32-bit versions of windows.
-
- > That's one of the features that distinguishes
- >it from silly paged memory models like EMS.
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- Only under DOS.
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- >Windows 95 might be the most commonly-used OS overall in a year, yes, mostly
- >due to OEM bundling, but the real question is "how many potential Executor
- >users will be likely to use Windows 95"? That's a tough call, I guess, and
- >it certainly merits consideration, but most of the folks I know who are the
- >most likely to want Executor are mostly running Linux or OS/2 now because
- >those are also cutting-edge toys to play with.
- >
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- Win95 is a cutting edge platform. In fact, it is probibly more powerful, and has more (much
- much more) support than wimpy old OS/2. I had OS/2 2.00 and am never going back.
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- >I just don't see Windows 95 as being a cutting-edge platform. And I don't
- >see the Windows 3.x market vanishing immediately, either.
- >
- >Oh well. I'm bordering on advocacy here (my apologies), and ARDI has a lot
- >more important things to concentrate on (like v1.99n and 1.99o <grin>). I
- >can't wait for v1.99n's release. Has anyone gotten Cyclone to work on E/D??
- >
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- Yep. Lets see if those ever come out first! Heh. Heh. No offense ARDI.
-
- >-Rich Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com is my perferred e-mail address)
- >
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- -Dan Guisinger
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