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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: 1 Sep 1995 03:38:46 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 65 Message-ID: <425v86$32p@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <41m3at$vn7@lucy.swin.edu.au> <41qk39$16f@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com> <41un0e$3jm@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <adtDE4xEp.Jyn@netcom.com> <4236mc$p8g@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <adtDE6qsv.IFK@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:adtDE6qsv.IFK@netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5212 comp.sys.intel:46424 adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote: >Amancio Hasty, Jr. (hasty@rah.star-gate.com) wrote: >: Oh, I don't know it was my first experience with Win95.5 and I am not >: proclaiming to be an expert on Win95.5 . However, the fault of the real problem >: lies with Win95.5 and not with me . As I said before if Win95.5 >: had detected a config.sys problem it should have tried to prompt >: the user or default booting to dos . My point is that at the time >: I had no idea how to fix the problem from the Win95.5 side of things. > >Did you consider looking at documentation? The option to step through >config.sys is not very hard to find. I'm sorry, your complaint still >seems weak and contrived. It depends on your point of view... Must admit except for that minor gotcha on the Win95 side of things , I have had *no* need to read any documentation. So you as a cool software engineer would love to omit a provision for prompting the user for help and obviously crashing Win95.5 is better ... >I suppose you have never had to look at books, documentation, FAQs, etc... >to get FreeBSD working? Hey, no one here is saying that FreeBSD is easier to configure than Win95... >: Lets see, since Win95 has multitasking does it support paging or does >: all the process' space needs to reside in memory? > >I believe each Win32 app receives 2G of virtual address space. So the question now is how does Win95 handles page trimming to avoid trashing the system . >: Does Win95 provide pre-emptive scheduling for 32bit applications? > >The Win32 apps are fully pre-emptive. Win16 apps do not pre-empt eachother >though, compatibility problem. > Interesting statement . A few minutes ago I ran Win95.5 , invoke a couple of versions of netscape, one version of Microsoft Internet explorer and started browsing with all three browsers. Then , I invoke Windows explorer I assume a 32bit app --- it crashed ... So I went on browsing a bit more a few minutes later I clicked the "my computer" icon the hold system froze --- most cool for an app to freeze the windowing system. So I waited a few minutes hoping that that a dialogue box would pop-up . Nothing, nada, zero. So I hit <ctrl><alt><del> a window came up and said that if I repeated the same key sequence that the system would reboot or if I hit <return> that the offending app would be terminated so I hit return -- the whole screen turns black and that whats the end of it. The system was not able to recuperate and I pressed reboot . I guess I most read the documentation 8) A)bort, R)etry, F)reebsd ? -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD