From:	"John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: does djgpp bugger you're machine?
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:03:44 -0500
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Ali Siddiqui wrote:

> lecturer(he teaches C programming in my Electronics course) tells me
> that djgpp can seriously affect the health of you're computer and it is

  He is confused.

> has many a bug within it. Is this true? furthermore, my DOS computer

  Any complex program has many bugs.  DJGPP has fewer than average
for a C compiler, and enough people are using it successfully on
Win95 that any really serious ones would be reported and fixed by
now.

> does seem to have alotta bugs init especially when running
> Win95(extremely frequent crashes, frequency lowered when keyboard
> instead of mouse used)

  Years ago, I upgraded several Win 3.1 machines to Win95 and
they all did that.  They all had 3-button serial mice using
the Mouse Systems protocol.  The mice had switches marked
either "2" or "MS" for Microsoft protocol and either "3"
or "PC" for Mouse Systems protocol.  I switched them all to
Microsoft protocol and those crashes stopped happening (Win95
still crashes a lot for other reasons).  I concluded that
there must be a serious bug in the driver for Mouse Systems
Protocol that is included in the "update" version of the
Win 95 CD-ROM.

> Up till now I thought of these bugs as part of
> Win95

  Good guess!
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