From: "John S. Fine" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: does djgpp bugger you're machine? Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:03:44 -0500 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <363A0D90.57F0@erols.com> References: <3639DC20 DOT 41B1 AT ucl DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: n+YopLFAvcQPGSfU/xnl5nJGDQisLiY77Ul9EYN0yes= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rcn DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Oct 1998 19:04:31 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; U) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Ali Siddiqui wrote: > lecturer(he teaches C programming in my Electronics course) tells me > that djgpp can seriously affect the health of you're computer and it is He is confused. > has many a bug within it. Is this true? furthermore, my DOS computer Any complex program has many bugs. DJGPP has fewer than average for a C compiler, and enough people are using it successfully on Win95 that any really serious ones would be reported and fixed by now. > does seem to have alotta bugs init especially when running > Win95(extremely frequent crashes, frequency lowered when keyboard > instead of mouse used) Years ago, I upgraded several Win 3.1 machines to Win95 and they all did that. They all had 3-button serial mice using the Mouse Systems protocol. The mice had switches marked either "2" or "MS" for Microsoft protocol and either "3" or "PC" for Mouse Systems protocol. I switched them all to Microsoft protocol and those crashes stopped happening (Win95 still crashes a lot for other reasons). I concluded that there must be a serious bug in the driver for Mouse Systems Protocol that is included in the "update" version of the Win 95 CD-ROM. > Up till now I thought of these bugs as part of > Win95 Good guess! -- http://www.erols.com/johnfine/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8600/