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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Warning: Sounder and ATM conflict
Message-ID: <10182@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 07:18:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.054213.15361@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In <1990Nov2.054213.15361@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace) writes:

>Since I wrote and posted it, I guess it's only fair that I be the bearer of bug
>news.  There's something wrong with either Sounder or ATM (my money is on the
>latter) that causes UNRECOVERABLE-type errors--I found one when trying to set
>the point size in Winword with ATM loaded and running.  The strange thing is
>I had sounder in my load= line, but after that it should have went bye-bye.
>Heapwalker doesn't show any traces of DSOUND (the .DLL Sounder uses), but I'd
>still bet that something bad is happening when the DLL is finally kicked out.
>Oh, well...

>I also noticed that Legacy dies when ATM is loaded--it can't even get a window
>up before UNRECOVERABLE...  appears.

>Other than that, ATM looks quite good.  The speed is certainly acceptable, the
>quality (on my 9-pin Epson) passable, and the screen fonts (with a one-pixel
>exception in the 'e' for 12-point Times on a Herc) are quite good.

Well, I've found some trouble with ATM, too. I just installed it today, and
after only a couple of hours with WfW, I had gone through four "Unrecoverable"
errors, all of which completely hung my system.

Note that I'm not using Sounder at all, as I'm running in 386 ENH. mode.
I'm rather dissapointed. Windows 3.0, and all of my software under it, have
been steady-as-a-rock since I installed 3.0 back in June.  Now, I can no
longer laugh a Mac users who's systems go "boom" (literally) all of the time.
Ahhh, well. I guess I'll have to choose between nice-looking screen and
printer fonts and a stable system.  I hope they fix some of these bugs
soon... ...I really would *love* to have both...

-Chris

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