Re: Windows 3.0

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From: sampson david 58163
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 12:37

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In article <6564@umd5.umd.edu> brianf@umd5.umd.edu (Brian Farmer) writes:

>Many people been have complaining about how 3.0 protected mode won't
>allow many old apps to run.

This is giving a FALSE! impression and may scare some users into
thinking that their old (windows ver 2.xx) applications will not run
at all.

When you try to execute a program that was designed for ver 2.xx, a
message box pops up and warns you about a POSSIBLE incompatability
that MAY result in errors or a loss of data (only in memory.  Windows
won't scrog your disk files).  It tells you to re-start windows like
this --> win /R

The /R tells windows to start in real mode (i.e. 286 mode), which
maintains compatability for older programs.  The downside of the /R
paramater is that in forcing 286 compatability, you are limited to the
640K barrier.  In standard mode, that barrier is removed.

David

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