Subj : Re: QWK mail for WinXP??
To   : Gordon Lewicky
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Aug 09 2003 09:00 pm

-=> Gordon Lewicky wrote to Mike Powell <=-

 GL> I do hope your XP user is using Bwave386?

If you mean to imply that the 386 version is more compatible with XP: Just
the opposite is true. The 16-bit version uses plain old virtual 86 mode
under a DOS shell. But the 386 version uses protected-mode extensions --
sometimes dicey when you're running under a protected-mode OS to begin
with.

My experience: I only run Windows XP from a VMWare session under Linux,
which I suppose makes things even more complicated. In that environment,
Blue Wave/386 does not run at all. I have no problem with plain 8086 DOS
apps, so I assume (but have not tested) that the 16-bit version of Blue
Wave would work.

Of course, for DOS apps, normally I don't bother loading up VMWare, but
rather I run them under DOSEMU from Linux. This uses virtual mode, with a
DPMI interface available -- essentially the same as the DOS box under
Windows. In this environment, Blue Wave/386 runs, but very slowly, for some
reason. The same is true of some other protected-mode apps, like Silver
Xpress -- though not, I note, MultiMail/DOS (= 386 in Blue Wave terms),
which uses a different DOS extender. 16-bit real-mode apps, including SLMR
and MultiMail/XT, run very fast.

But native apps, like MultiMail/Win32, probably work best. ;-)

.... MS-DOS is to a real OS as "creation science" is to paleontology.
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