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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3 bugs (Re: Where are you Windows 3?)
Keywords: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.145349.26394@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:53:49 GMT
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Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <1990Apr10.152705.856@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
}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.
}
Yeah, but there'll be a lot more happy people, like all the people that have
pumped me for information on Windows 3.0.  I mean, the general consensus that
I've gotten so far from people is "So what if I have to get new versions of
my software.  I'll be getting more memory."

As for those people that have to fix their programs to work under 3.0
(such as us) we don't really mind.  It's just another challenge in the
programming world.  Oh, and our software involves a recursive descent
compiler that has to "execute" data also.

I'll say more about my experimentation with Windows 3.0 after it's
announced.

Patrick
-- 
"Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us