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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:16:44 -0700
From: Tom Hawker <tom_hawker@mail.amsinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Opinions of VW2.51
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Bill Gooch wrote:
> 
> Leon Hurst <Leon.Hurst@cs.tcd.ie> wrote in article
> <324A4C93.60A1@cs.tcd.ie>...
> > We are just about to buy VW 2.51 but I would like to read some reviews
> > on it first. I have found nothing on the Web. Can anyone give me
> > pointers to some material (excepting ParcPlaces own site).?
> >
> > Also, in general terms, how well does VW work under Win95 and then under
> > WinNT? I am thinking of GUI speed, pre-emtive threads/processes,
> > BOSSing and TCP/IP. Any and all comments are very welcome.
> 
> In general, I find that VW 2.5 works fine under NT 3.51;
> I haven't used it on 95.  GUI speed is good.
> [remainder snipped]

Works fine under NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Win 95.  Make sure you use 2.51 and not
2.5 or 2.0, as host document printing fails in things other than 2.51.
It's internal processes are like threads but do not use O/S capabilities,
and do allow pre-emption by setting the priority.  BOSS works under all
variants, and even to and from different ones (NT, OS/2, Unix).  TCP/IP
works fine in all cases I've tried, which unfortunately does not yet go
for NT 4.0.  (We're porting to NT 4.0;  I haven't tried my socket stuff
out on it yet, but it's supposedly the same version of WinSock as 95...)

I recommend NT over Win 95 unless you're really strapped for memory (but
at today's $10-15/MB, I have no sympathy).  It's faster (noticeably even
on a P5/120), and its memory protection facility prevents Microsoft Office
from corrupting your object memory.

Tom Hawker
