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Win9x are still using thousands of lines from Windows 3.x. This operating
system has never been and will never be a technology capable for critical
applications. The decision whether financial requirements can be satisfied
by Win9x (the Microsoft house solution = the DOS/Win games platform) is
depending on personnal projects. Omega Research is recommanding its 2000i
product line users to use Windows NT [read between the lines the first
question support will ask is : " What about your operating system ? "]
Alain
At 19:41 22/2/2000 -0800, Daniel Martinez wrote:
>I think Equis, for it's next MetaStock version, should have built-in VBA
>support. Also, MS should have a MS language converter for conversion to VBA.
>This way, experienced users can gradually move to VBA. New users can start
>using VBA right away instead of learning MS. VBA is becoming the standard
>language for users. Even Corel is getting the message by including VBA
>support
>in their Office 2000. While this may seem difficult, MicroSoft Word has macro
>AND VBA support.
>
>Right now, we must buy an extra SDK, Power Basic or equivalent, figure out how
>to create DLL's and learn how to link them to MS.
>
>About Traderware: Something many on this List may not know. Traderware will
>not work in Win9x. You must use Win NT. If you try to use Win9x, it will
>crash after about an hour. Their salesman told me Win9x won't "return system
>resources" correctly. I have never heard of this type of problem in Win9x
>before so it doesn't make much sense to me. I doubt RadarScreen has this
>problem.
>
>Daniel.
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