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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3 bugs (Re: Where are you Windows 3?)
Keywords: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.152705.856@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:27:05 GMT
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In article <4633@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
>In article <53979@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>| My understanding is that Microsoft wants to release the new Windows with as
>| few bugs as possible, i.e. none.  The Windows user community has waited a
>| long time for the release of Windows, and if Microsoft releases a buggy
>| product it will make no one happy.  Microsoft decided to push back the
>| release date of Windows to have more time to kill bugs.  Sadistic marketing
>| types trying to be "cool" had nothing to do with the decision.
>
>As of March 26th, there were still some known bugs that they were tracking
>down.  However, I suspect that Win3 will have fewer bugs than the earlier
>versions.  If Win3 runs in protected mode, there's a strong chance that they
>caught some of the more pernicious bugs that were unknown until now.  I
>wonder how many GP faults they ran into...
>

IF Windows 3 runs in protected mode, how can many previous Windows
programs work? I know that most of mine - including one that is actually
being sold for money  - won't. And I followed all the guidelines
in the Windows manuals and Petzold's book carefully. I locked down
all my segments, used (essentially) small model, but there is one thing that
that certainly will break - these programs are incremental compilers
and thus I have to be able to execute data. The brain-dead scheme of the 286
prevents that. Presumably you mean that NEW Windows programs - those
specifically compiled for Windows 3 - will run in protected mode, while
Windows 2 or 1 programs will continue to run in real mode or virtual 8086
mode?  If people's programs stop running there are going to be an
AWFUL lot of mad people - like me.

Doug McDonald