Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:11:23 +0500 (MVT)
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> > So as you can see 32-bit protected mode extended dos is better in
> > DOS4GW/WATCOM than DJGPP in this case.

And DOS4G attempts to run a 32-bit PM program when there's already a
16-bit program running (it crashes, btw). But DJGPP doesn't do that. It
gives a friendly message "Load error: can't switch mode".

> 
> Then please explain to me why do Watcom programs behave much worse on
> Windows than DJGPP programs.
>