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On Apr 11, 12:09pm, jesse montrose wrote:
> Subject: Re: Windows 95 Preview Program
> At 04:45 PM 4/10/95 -0400, Dunaway_Wesley/furman@furman.edu wrote:
> >In any event, I was wondering if anyone out there has had previous
> >experience with Windows 95 betas on TP750s.
> I've been running win95 on my 755cs since last october.. sucks less than
> windows :)
Jesse,
I'm surprised to find someone who actually *likes* Windows '95. The
reviews have been horrible:
>>> SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1995 MAR 27 (NB) -- A weekly
>>> computer publication says it has found Windows 95, Microsoft
>>> Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) next generation combination user interface
>>> and operating system, "flawed" to the point it will be of use only
>>> to home users.
>>>
>>> According to Nicholas Petreley, executive editor of
>>> reviews at InfoWorld, the long-awaited and several-times-delayed
>>> Windows 95 has such severe problems that its functionality is
>>> limited for business use. The InfoWorld editor said the problem is
>>> that Windows 95 runs out of system resources when running
>>> multi-threaded 32-bit applications.
>>>
>>> If the magazine is correct, that could be a serious
>>> obstacle to widespread corporate adoption of the program, which is
>>> now scheduled to launch in August 1995, since the ability to run
>>> 32-bit applications is touted as one of its major advantages.
>>>
>>> In an interview with Newsbytes Petreley called Windows 95 "a
>>> disaster" if it ships in its current form. "I fear that unless
>>> Microsoft goes back to the drawing board on this operating system,
>>> only light home users will get anything out of it," writes Petreley
>>> in this week's issue of the publication.
>>>
>>> The problem, according to the editor, is that Windows 95 is a
>>> 32-bit wraparound on top of Windows 3.1., so Microsoft is running
>>> into a lot of the limitations of Windows 3.1 due to the company's
>>> desire to make Windows 95 backwards-compatible. "They managed to
>>> move some of the information out of the (graphics) GDI heap into the
>>> 32-bit address base but they haven't really done it successfully
>>> with the user heap, so they are keeping this thing called the
>>> Windows class, which is really the basic building block of all
>>> Windows objects and windows. That information is still being kept
>>> in the 64K user heap in conventional memory."
>>>
>>> Petreley told Newsbytes the result of that architecture is that
>>> when you place a folder-oriented multi-threaded desktop on top of
>>> it and want to open a number of different folders, you fill up that
>>> relatively small user heap very rapidly. "I ran out of resources
>>> just running Microsoft Word and the Microsoft Network at the same
>>> time," he told Newsbytes. Petreley said he was running Windows 95 on
>>> a Pentium-based PC with 32 megabytes (MB) of memory.
>>>
>>> Petreley said Microsoft hand-delivered a fix to InfoWorld that moved
>>> the Windows class out of the user heap and into the 32-bit address
>>> space. "But it breaks things left and right, including 32-bit
>>> applications. Microsoft Network crashes and Word for Windows
>>> crashes," he said.
>>>
>>> The Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary Second Edition defines the
>>> heap as "a portion of memory reserved for a program to use for the
>>> temporary storage of data structures whose existence or size cannot
>>> be determined until the program is running. The program can request
>>> free memory from the heap to hold such elements, use it as
>>> necessary, and later free the memory."
>>>
>>> A call to Microsoft in an attempt get that company's comment on this
>>> story had not been returned by press deadline.
>>>
>>> (Jim Mallory/19950327/Press contact: Microsoft, 206-882-8080;
>>> Infoworld, 415-572-7341)
>>
>
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