Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:44:43 08/11/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 20:59:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Win2k crashes continuesly here after it's running for a few days and i start compiling with msvc 6.0 sp3 a lot... both pro edition as well as server edition
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