Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing Message-ID: <18950054@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 10 Oct 90 21:00:59 GMT References: <1990Oct8.232032.5986@mentor.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 30 > In the "Electronic Engineering Times", October 8, 1990, an article > explains that Caere Corp. is the first to announce a "32-bit wide > Windows 3.0 application, which bypasses the ... normal 16-bit limit." > Only in some ways. But I haven't time to look into this in details. There's apparently a section in the Windows 3.0 SDK about 32 bit application. But looks pretty limited to me. > The article goes on to read "[the] package makes full use of host > 80386 or 80486 32-bit processing" and "Microsoft now has 32-bit code > drivers and routines that are available for [WDK] users by request." > Lot's of bull. I believe 32-bit code drivers are certainly available. But Windows 3.0 itself is inherently half 16 bit half 32 bit. There is a 64 K limit on global heap space which translate to running out of system resource before you run out of memory (especially if you have more than 8 MB memory). Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include