[AccessD] suspend execution of VB code

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Feb 19 11:20:00 CST 2003


Hi Charlotte

> Win95 was strictly 16 bit, as far as I recall.  They came up with a
> translator for 32 bit API calls, but it didn't make 95 32 bit.  You had
> to use the 16 bit API calls there.

It's the other way around; it is 32 bit but had to support 16 bit API
calls to be backward compatible with Windows 3.1x:

  http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/appserv/ntwinwp.asp

For Windows 3.11 you lately could get a Win32 module which allowed
some well behaved 32 bit apps to run in the Windows 3.11 16 bit
environment.

/gustav




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