From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)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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