Win 3.10 (was: Old HP scanner

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun Feb 17 16:14:55 2002

> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>

> The primary design goal of Windoze 3.10 was to get rid of the
> multitudinous UAEs ("Unexpected Application Error"s)
>
> To some extent, they succeeded. (Now they were EXPECTED.)
>
>
> For the difference between 3.10 and 3.11, use the built-in calculator
> accessory to subtract 3.10 from 3.11. What do you get?

IIRC the reason we did the "upgrade" was that Win 3.0 didn't support
TrueType fonts.

> UAE was a poor choice for an error message, as few if any knew what it
> meant. It was replaced by the even less understood "General Protection
> Fault". The issue of the message was finally addressed with the change
to
> "program has performed an illegal operation", which had the major benefit
> of pointing the blame away from the operating system. (even though it was
> often Windoze that had done the dastardly deed.)

>From time to time I will get a call from someone who bought a PC from us
asking (in a frightened or angry voice) why we sold them an *illegal*
computer . . . "it says so right here on the screen, and my program won't
work."

Glen
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Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 16:14:55 GMT