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In article <37rv74$1jc@kadath.zeitgeist.net>,
Brian A. Roberson <bar@uclink2.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>Thunking obviously adds some time (very little?) to the processing 
>>of a program.
>
>Depends on the ratio of system calls to total work.  If the program
>spends most of its time doing 32-bit work and very little calling
>through the 32-bit to 16-bit system channels, the programs runs
>faster.

If you are running only 32bit programs this would be right.  If you wanted
to use only 32bit you would probably want to run NT or Windows 95.  Most of
the other programs run by people when running Mosiac are 16 bit programs. 
Understand?  I don't. :-)


>>Win32s takes up a considerable chunk of memory when being used (Around
>>700K?)  
>
>The memory issue is correct.  However, adding memory would help this.
>Adding memory, in general, would not allow you to run many intensive
>Windows programs due to resource management (we all know).  However,
>I believe that Win32s doesn't cut into the resource memory by much.

Point is that having both a 16bit and 32bit programs is beneficial to most
users.  One of the main reasons to be 32bit is for the multithreading which
is a mute point in 16bit Windows.  Generally, and I stress that word, a
16bit program will be more beneficial to a Windows environment.