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echo: bluewave
to: DAN EGLI
from: BRUCE CLARK
date: 2004-06-18 12:02:00
subject: Blue Wave under XP

-=> Quoting Dan Egli to Bruce Clark <=-

 BC> I'm contemplating updating to a:
 BC> Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.8GHz with Hyper-Threading
 BC> Technology 1GB 333MHz DDR SDRAM (2-512MB modules) 60GB 4200rpm Ultra
 BC> ATA hard drive Integrated DVD-R/-RW/CD-RW recorder
 
 BC> But I would like to retain my favorite DOS & Win 3.1 programs from the
 BC>  ten year old computer I am using now.

 DE> 90% of them will be fine as long as they used nothing but the standard
 DE> Win16 API. It's the funky ones that used extensions like WinG that will
 DE> give issues now.

What is WinG? 
And is there an easy way to tell if an old windows program uses it? 

 
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