>Thanx Ed, but I think I'll pass on this one <g>.
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>I guess the users will just have to be careful about the number of apps they have running simultaneously.
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>When is Microsoft going to learn that that big time-sharing CASE isn't going to work?
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It does, but you need to have much greater understanding of the underpinnings of how Windows dispatching works and finer control of the environment than safely made available from VFP.
>Waiting for the days when NT gains processor control........
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Again it exists now, with both NT and Win2K supporting multiprocessor SMP, and the Win32 API offering fine control of process and thread affinity for a given processor in the SMP environment. If your users think that trying to run several apps simultaneously on a machine with only one processor and inadequate memory, they're unrealistic. Compare what they're doing to trying to pull a 10 ton trailer up a steep hill behind a Yugo; while the car might make it alone, adding 20,000 lbs to the load really slows it down, and it may just sit there if you're lucky, or break down entirely.