Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

It looks as if were are stuck with 98se then. Does anyone on the list have experience with XP and
XY4, and if so, does that exhibit the same jerky response in a window?
Thanks

Paul Breeze

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:56:11 -0400, Martin J. Osborne wrote:
>The following post appears on the "technical talk" website
>http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/67/lev3/70/pid/616/qid/199633
>If correct, it appears to mean that there is no solution for the jerky screen
>response of XyWrite and other DOS applications that I and others experience
>under W2000:
>
> "This is a display problem that win2000 has with 16 bit applications. It
>has nothing to do with emulation or any
>       processor settings.  You can demonstrate the problem
>by simply bringing up the DOS editor and noticing how
>       jerky the keys reflect back to the keyboard. In full
>screen mode it smooths out. I hammered Microsoft support
>       on this in January [2002] and they spent a week trying
>to find a solution. Then they found that it was inherent in
>       win2000 and gave up. They are not going to fix it,
>leaving those of us with old but excellent DOS applications
>       stuck on win98. Sorry about that."
>
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