SB>JJ> course, all Windows based software is slow when compared to its DOS
SB>JJ> counterparts, so you have to be careful about the time required to do
SB>JJ> things.
SB>Are we talking Windows 3.1 or Wind95 / NT here? A well written 32 bit APP
SB>ought do have no problem keeping up with or exceeding a 16 bit app...And, 
if
SB>you don't want or need the GUI (which can slow things down) you can right
SB>console apps that run in the DOS box...but with the multi-threaded nature 
of
SB>Win95 and NT, I don't see any problem writting high performance apps.
I'm talking "real time", which in some cases means a response time of
under one minute and in others, a response time in the order of
milliseconds. So far, I'm using Delpi-16 running under either Win-31 or
Win-95. Once one moves over to NT, physical I/O becomes a problem since
I understand that NT makes the I/O instructions privileged. At least '95
enables the ports for you after the first access. And, from what I've
seen, there are also some games in handling memory even with Win-31 as
well as Win-95.
But, all in all, I like the environment. Especially since I've started
using Take Command as my command line interpreter instead of that
gawdawful Explorer or Program Manager that Microsoft provides.
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