Re: A question or three.

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From: Brian Sturgill
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:31

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In article <1992Aug13.173409.25915@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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>They have similar concepts, but the MS API makes you do more work.
>You have to call functions that, IMO, should be called automatically
>when the program loads.

Agreed, though NT fixes one important problem that PM still has.
If one PM app blocks to do something time consuming (instead of
using a thread) then all PM programs will be hung waiting for that
PM app to finish. This happens because PM has one global event queue.
Win32 has an event queue per process (like X does).

Brian

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Subject: Re: A question or three.
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:31:06 MDT
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