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Re: Help getting FD up and running

In article <wkofr7hqxe.fsf@double.co.nz>, Chris Double
<chris@double.co.nz> wrote:

> kachina@gte.net (Kachina) writes:
> 
> > Heck, I would consider buying a cheep PIII (a true sign of
> > desperation), but I'm not sure I could get it running on that
> > either.  I haven't been able to get the commercial version of Dylan
> > running on any PC (real or virtual) now that I think of it... Not
> > since HD.
> 
> What were the problems on the real PC? I've never had a problem on a
> number of machines. Just run the various installers and it works.
> 

Windows 95/98/Me are not really suitable for use as a development
platform.  They crash far too easily and their support for debuggers,
etc. is weak compared to that of Windows NT/2000.  We (i.e., Functional
Objects) do all our development work on either Windows NT or Windows
2000 and Functional Developer is quite stable on those platforms.

At the moment, Functional Developer does not appear to be compatible
with Windows Me and we've been unable to resolve the problems as yet.
But, even if we did, Windows Me is still too fragile to be used for
development work.

(We've done preliminary testing against pre-release versions of Windows
XP and it appears that Functional Developer is compatible. However,
until we can test against the released version, we can't guarantee that
we'll be OK.)

> > 
> > Who among you has successfully run FD on VirtualPC?  What version?
> 
> Maybe it is not compatible with VirtualPC after all?

I've done testing with Virtual PC 4.02 for Macintosh and I'm sorry to
report that Functional Developer isn't compatible.  Using Windows 2000
under Virtual PC, the Developer crashes with integer overflow errors
that do not occur running under Windows 2000 on a real PC. Presumably,
this is an emulator bug.

I've also tried the just released Virtual PC 4.0 for Windows.  I've
used it to run Windows XP as the guest OS on my PC and Functional
Developer appears to work.  However, when I tried it with Windows Me as
the guest OS, the Developer would crash in ways that, I'm told, do not
occur when running under Windows Me on a real PC.  (However, as I don't
have any detailed reports on the failures under Windows Me on a real
PC, I can't yet blame Virtual PC for Windows.)

-- 
  - Gary Palter,
    Functional Objects, Inc.
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