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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
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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 ?

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