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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (18302)	3/31/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Interesting things like a tiny footprint (data/instructions<64k) program runs twice as fast as a large (multiple 64k segments). And how thing slow to a crawl when running on the Win95 32 bit versions. What kind of hardware do you have? An 80286? If you have a Pentium, there is no performance issue with regard to >64K segments. That is strictly a remnant of 80286 hardware. Besides, Windows is just not a stable platform for application development. I do not know a single company doing software development that still uses it for real development. Pentium II and Pentium Pro machines running NT are the preferred environment for doing app development for the Windows platform. But if cross-platform Java is what you want, and speed and stability are important, I believe that Linux is better, although I do not know about the availability of development-tool software for it, so that could be an issue.