Quality  Assurance and Development at DMAC really worked  to bring out a 16 bit version that ran in all combinations with Windows  products  and  Windows  and  Novell  servers.  They thought nothing could be harder because each Windows product started with a different version of MSDOS. And every version of  a  Novell client (whether Microsoft's or  Novell's)  had unique  bugs  and shortfalls. (Some say ,"Give me  LINUX  or UNIX any day").

Microsoft's thirty two bit application program interface was supposed to be easier. With ANSI C++ and the standard  WIN32 API  everything should work as one environment.  Forget  it. The only thing you can count on from Microsoft is that  each version  is  larger,  buggier  (Microsoft  calls  this  less understood features) and slower. Regardless of what they say this  sloppiness  cannot continue or the world  will  reject Microsoft completely.

Maybe that is just sour grapes because quality assurance has held  up the 32 bit version for almost 9 months. Well,  part has  been development reworking algorithms when they  behave differently  on a particular version.  If the lowest  common denominator and factors are what works, then we are down  to all prime numbers. When Windows 2000 comes we will  probably really go nuts. Ain't life great?

Right  now  our  guess is that the CD-ROM with  the  32  bit Windows  version  (and  16 Bit and LINUX  versions  and  the updated  manual - both hard copy and on CD-ROM) will be  out for TAWPI the first week of August.