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In article <1992Apr7.161217.823@desire.wright.edu>, rocker@desire.wright.edu
writes:
|>	Is anyone else finding 3.1 to be VERY buggy?  So far, after 6 hours
|>I've already had the following:

[bug stuff deleted]

	Yes, I've also run into some snarls with the new version of Win 3.1:

1) SuperPrint (a scalable font driver for Epsons, HP Laser/Deskjet) is
   totally broken.  They are sending out a new release in a few weeks.
2) Alt-TAB to switch between windows completely locks the machine.  I
   cannot get this to work at all. (this a MAJOR one guys...)
3) The multi-media drivers do not support the advanced features of my
   Music Quest MIDI card (dual MIDI in/out, and SMPTE support).  My
   sequencer (MasterTracks Pro) refuses to use its own drivers if it 
   finds the multi-media extensions present.
4) The cursor seems to randomly disappear in Ami Pro 2.0
5) I tried reformatting some of the text in a WinWrite document to use
   TrueType.  When I killed Write and then tried to reload it, the
   machine locked.
6) As for error recovery, I have yet to find that Windows was able to 
   prevent me from having to reboot on a serious error.

	My configuration is a Gateway 486/33C, with 16 meg of RAM and the
ATI Ultra card, running DOS 5.0.  I'm running ATM 2.0, and Norton Desktop
1.0, connected to a Deskjet 500.  Has anyone with a similar system seen 
these problems (I'm especially concerned with Alt-TAB problem).

	On the good side, I've found:

1) Upgrading was a snap, no problem going from Win 3.0
2) Printing is MUCH faster than before.  Even though SuperPrint is bust,
   I'm really at odds on whether to bother with the upgrade.  The one
   really nice thing about SuperPrint is the ability to print to TIFF,
   BMP, or PCX files.
3) Performance is noticably faster, especially window creation.  MasterTracks
   Pro and Turbo Pascal/Win come up like lightning.
4) Disk acess is faster and fewer, but I wonder how much of that is write 
   caching by SmartDrv (write caching always makes me nervous).
5) The sound stuff is fun, although I wish I could globally adjust the 
   volume.  And the SoundBlaster is a bit noisy for my tastes.  (Of 
   course, with a Proteus/1 and /2 an arm's length away, I'm a bit
   spoiled!)
6) Resource usage is MUCH better.  I used to hit the ceiling if I attempted
   to run Quicken/Win along with Norton Desktop.  Anything else I would
   run usually bombed.  This is no longer the case.

	All in all a very MIXED experience.

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David Yon
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