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Fritz,
no 16 bit program can run multitasking even if it runs on win95, 98
or NT.
Gerrit
> "Gerrit Jacobsen" <jrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Since Windows 3.1 is not a multitasking system ...
>
> I'm on Win95, but that's not the issue. (The 16-bit TS software is
> still a CPU hog when it's running something, even on W95. Which is a
> colossal pain in the rear when, for example, it locks up my system
> for 5-6 minutes when I start TS and it loads up 4-5 big workspaces.)
>
> > However when you optimize you are still able to interact with the
> > system. This is because the Omega propgrammers have made the
> > optimization process a kind of multitasking process by giving
> > time-slices to other processes during the optimization. This slows
> > the optimization calculation down.
>
> I've done hundreds of optimizations, and I've never seen this
> behavior before. Optimization runs normally run at virtually the
> same speed as normal non-opt runs. But this case I ran up against
> was 50-100 times slower! I guarantee you that's not from the
> optimization overhead.
>
> Gary
>
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