Re: PBEM Development Query - GUI front-ends 16 or 32 bit?

From: gsf@ftech.net

Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In Article<348465f3.904567@news.firstnet.co.uk>, <arnie@solid-gold.co.uk>
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> From: arnie@solid-gold.co.uk (A.R.N.I.E.)
> Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
> Subject: PBEM Development Query - GUI front-ends 16 or 32 bit?
>
> Following general discussion in another group, I would welcome opinion
> specifically related to PBEM GUI front-ends, if anybody would care to
> comment...
>
> General consensus seems to suggest that 16-bit software (Windows 3.11)
> is no longer necessary as the "vast majority" of IBM-PC users now run
> Windows '95 (or a different OS entirely).
>
> Thoughts anyone? Does anybody out there still use 3.11 in preference?
>
> Please feel free to email direct if all you want to say is "Yes, I use
> 3.11" - rather than fill this group with such comments!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pete.

As a PBEM GUI front-end developer, I have found that some 25% of players are
still using Windows 3.1 software, and am still supporting 16-bit users as a
result.

Graham McPhee
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PBEM Development Query - GUI front-ends 16 or 32 bit?
arnie@solid-gold.co.uk (A.R.N.I.E.)
Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000