Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:05:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Win95 weirdness (was Re: Configuring perl5004 problem)
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On 31 Oct 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Anyone else notice Win95 (and win3.1 was even WORSE for this) sometimes
> generates protection fault messages or no apparent reason from things that
> are either perfectly valid, or were perfectly valid and ostensibly haven't
> changed? I quit writing windows apps because (whether I used VB,
> Smalltalk, or whatnot) Windows apps can work fine, and then one change
> which is still valid code with valid pointer/memory use, and it can
> suddenly generate GPFs;

I use Windows 95 extensively for the past few months, and I never had a 
crash for which I didn't find (or knew) the reason.

But I don't use VB or Smalltalk, so I'm not sure this answers your 
question.