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Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Chester Karma
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 01:40
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In article <3vqmpa$dth@reznor.larc.nasa.gov> PJ <pjuang@hawking.nhgs.tec.va.us> writes:
>>It does? I've run 3.11 for a few months (before I upgraded to Win95), I 
didn't
>>notice that it wouldn't terminate an active application.

>     It should.  If you can figure out a way to deliberately lock a program, 
try>it.  Then you should get a screen with a blue background telling you that 
the>application is not responding and you can 1) kill the app , 2) go back in 
and>stew, or 3) reset Windows entirely (not in this order, of course).

I knew Win gave the blue screen for locked applications, I didn't know Win 
3.11 wouldn't give the blue screen for running applications. (Oh no wait, I 
take that back, it would say "You can use these keystrokes to terminate a 
locked application, but there is no application in this state.")  In that 
case, Win 3.1 did that as well.
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Subject: Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 01:40:53 LOCAL
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