Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/22/17:50:48
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:44:01 -0700 Mitchell Spector
<spector AT EnchantedLearning DOT com> writes:
>Ben N Shadwick wrote:
>I set up a DOS program using exactly the same SVGA mode as my
>Win95 screen, used Alt-Tab to switch back and forth between the
>Win95 desktop and the full-screen DOS program, and it worked
>correctly on my system (except for not restoring the border colors).
Interesting. What video card did you say you had again? How much RAM does
it have?
>Maybe Win95 tries to save the video memory of the swapped-out process
>if it can find enough RAM (or virtual memory) to do it?
Maybe, although I have a feeling it doesn't even attempt to swap it
anywhere on my computer. Maybe it's bold enough to at least swap it to
another location in video memory, but that seems dangerous to me. I'll
certainly have to try it again if I ever get a new video card =)
>> I guess the bottom line is just that Win95 isn't... as reliable as it
>> could be, or as reliable as some people have been led to belive at
least
>> (not me =)
>
>Well, I wasn't claiming any sort of robustness here :-). But,
>actually, I haven't found Win95 to be as unstable as a lot of
Actually, I haven't been having a whole lot of trouble with it lately. I
just have to make sure my CPU fan never stops, and for some reason I
don't get the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" prompt when i do
a shutdown (which I sometimes do as a quick way to get to DOS, since that
screen is really just a hidden DOS prompt =)
>people say (although it's not nearly as stable as Unix, of course).
Of course =) It would be nice if there was a good OS for PC's that used
pre-emptive multitasking and only an optional GUI, yet would run MSDOS
(and I suppose maybe Windoze) programs.
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Ben Shadwick, Sysop, Mars Base BBS, (360)882-0773, Vancouver, WA, USA
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