Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:59:55 08/10/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 19:23:15, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On August 10, 2000 at 19:14:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>Let's get this directly straight: every true win32 program should >>work directly under NT. I have NT and i'm always WONDERING why >>so many programs don't work under NT. >> >>To start with auto232 player for windows. Stefan Meyer Kahlen writes >>code for it, it works perfect. >> >>Chrilly touches it, directly it doesn't work under NT at all! >> >>Now i still have problems to autoplay under NT and i have a cool >>dual800 now. I would really like to play program A at processor 0 >>against processor 1 running program B. >> >>I am really wondering how people achieve all this. >> >>Winboard works cool under NT. Someone adds a few features and then >>it doesn't work suddenly under NT? > >This might help you understand the problem. I copied the text from the changes >log: > >Winboard Plus 4.0.8-- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000 Mark Williams ><markcpa@pacbell.net> > >* Bug fix release. > >* Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a C++ > compiler which auto-generates .rc files which display the menu under Win 98 > and hide the menu under Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the .rc > file. Sigh. > >* "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two > engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to > Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug. > >* Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes. > Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug. > >* Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were > missing in 4.0.7. On the other, other hand, I have to agree with Vincent on this one. Often programs that seem to work fine on Windows 98, Windows 95, whatever fail miserably on Windows NT. Once in a great while it may be something esoteric like the above, but far more frequently, it is someone who has serious errors in their program. Windows NT is *FAR* less tolerant of shenanigans. If you write or read from an address that does not belong to your process, it will trap immediately. That isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing. Any robust operating system should do the same (I positively despise Windows 95 and its variants, but I really like Windows NT and Windows 2K). I have seen many, many programs that fail under Windows NT for the single reason that they were programmed in a lazy, sloppy, haphazard manner. I don't trust any program that runs under Windows 95 but fails under NT. When it works properly in both environments, then I can put some trust in it.
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