Re: Windows NT

[leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan Sivin wrote:
>
> I have two problems which I will run by the assembled company in
> separate messages. The first has to do with Windows NT. I am
> looking into the possibility of a new computer. After putting up
> with Win95 for several years, I am fed up with the endless
> crashes. Many of these are due to running DOS and 16-bit Windows
> programs, I realize.

Funny you should say that, Nathan. The one thing that has never crashed
on me under Win95 is XyDos!

I would like to use WinNT Workstation if its
> handling of "legacy" programs is likely to be an improvement in
> stability. Will it? Since I will continue to use XyDOS and the
> 16-bit XyWin, the second question is whether NT will pose
> problems of any magnitude.

Ah, but we have just started to convert to NT, and yes, it's far more
stable.

XyDOS works fine under it. Since I also installed NB Win on the new
machine, I didn't even bother to load the hideous XyWin.

I have had only one crash: I had loaded an amazingly huge file (nearly 1
mg) because one author had sent in a file called "Book," instead of
dividing it into chapters as a rational human being would have done
(this happens occasionally; once it was done by a dept. secretary,
fearful that she would not be able to number the ms. consecutively
throughout if she saved it chapter by chapter). Anyway, the screen
suddenly flipped to the command prompt and a MEMORY DUMP message
appeared. Mysterious numbers cascaded down the screen followed by MEMORY
DUMP UNSUCCESSFUL. The system automatically rebooted. But: when I
returned to XyWrite to continue my slicing and dicing of file "book," it
functioned properly.

By the way, just as in Win 9x, you can create a shortcut icon and run
XyDos right from the desktop. No reason to create dos windows, etc. etc.


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Leslie Bialler
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