Hi,
> the dreaded C5 memory error, etc.
Not exactly... Maybe you remember that application crashed a lot more on
Windows NT than they did on Windows 95 which crashed more frequently than
Windows 3.11. Ergo, Win 3.x was the better operating system.
Nope, what actually happened was that Windows NT used hardware mechanisms to
detect access of non existing memory areas whereas Win 3.1 only crashed if
you tried to access non existing physical memory. The application was as
faulty as ever on all three operating systems.
We just didn't notice the problems right away on the older operating
systems. Instead applications overwrote memory areas which caused many
problems much later on. Index, memo and table corruption used to be a much
bigger issue in FP 2.x than in VFP 9. Sure, many issues have been fixed. But
even for those unfixed issues, VFP 9 just crashes before it corrupts a file.
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Christof
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