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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3.0 - More questions
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.163854.21395@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Jun 90 16:38:54 GMT
References: <9906@rouge.usl.edu>
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <9906@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>1) Does win3 give each dos application a virtual 8088 machine when in
>   enhanced mode?
>   I have 9 mb memory (2 real and 8 swap) available and can only
>   run 1 copy of edix and 1 procomm...then is says out of memory,
>   kill an application.  Sooooo, the answer to this questions appears
>   to be :  ?? no, they still share 640k. 
>
Windows does give each DOS app a virtual 8088 machine.  Most likely the reason
you're getting an out of memory error is that there is some file that can't
be "shared".  What I mean by this is that these two program probably don't
support two copies of the program running at once.  The reason it says out
of memory is probably just an erroneous error message.

This is just my hypothesis.

>I wish that when I exit program manager, the entire state would
>be saved...i.e. protocol such that an application gets a save
>message and a restart message.

This can be done, sort of.  If you use the "load=" or "run=" statements
in the win.ini program you can set up programs that will be automatically
started when Windows is started.  True, it would be interested to have
an automatic mechanism to do this.  It could get tiresome after a while,
though.  I can think of a few reasons I wouldn't want it.  You could write
a simple windows app that would modify your win.ini everytime you exit
Windows.  Hmm, maybe I'll do it.

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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us