Re: You have to try this!

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From: J V Sneeringer
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 00:55

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On Fri, 21 Oct 1994 06:51:43 GMT John Navas (jnavas@netcom.com) wrote:

: No offense, but that's not correct.  Win32s thunks essentially *all*
: Win32s API calls down to Win16.  While the Win32s app is running in 32-bit
: mode, all Win32s API calls consume additional thunking overhead and then
: run in 16-bit mode.  This is why Win32s apps can actually run slower than
: corresponding Win16 apps; they only run faster if they do a lot of
: internal 32-bit processing. 

Exactly.  In order for Windows to be a 32-bit environment, the kernel 
would need to be and run 32-bit code native, and Win32s doesn't touch 
kernel.exe.


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