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Developing Applications for the SGI NT System using Windows 95


System:   any Category:   Windows Last Modified:   12/09/98
OS version:   NT 4.0 Product:   win32 Service Pack:  
Description

Is it possible to Develop Applications for the SGI NT system using Windows 95?

Problem Resolution

In general, Windows NT is a much more forgiving platform for development because of a much more robust operating system. As a result, it is the platform of choice for developing code for the new SGI systems. In addition, applications written specifically for NT will run unmodified on the new SGI NT platforms, which only run NT.

If you must develop your application under Windows 95, keep in mind that there are some very important differences between the two. The primary difference is with respect to digital media support and internationalization.

In general, Windows 95 has much better support for digital media products than NT. Most of this is due to the difference in the size of the install base. The most significant difference with internationalization (i18n) is the representation of international characters. For instance, while NT supports wide character calls to Win32, Windows 95 does not.

There are additional subtle Win32 differences that may appear between the two, but the above are the most prominent.


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