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From: "Chris Andrle" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 32-bit
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:41:50 -0400
References: <004401c0ec1b$4ad1a7e0$d5f2f5c7@oemcomputer>


Yes, six years is a long time, but Bob Velke has delivered the only
genealogy
software package that has the features that meet my requirements and I will
not criticize him for not delivering more. In fact, if he were to decide to
take a six-month vacation right now, I would say go right ahead. You can
wait for version 5 and then you can wait for the one after that and the one
after that. In the meantime, I'm enjoying doing genealogy.

Oh, and by the way, 32-bit technology is not standardized across the
industry. 48-bit technology has been around since 1979 or so and 64-bit has
been in use for several years now and the system I work on is expected to
move to 128-bit soon. Also available is the technology that allowed the move
from 48-bit to 64-bit to be completely transparent to application
developers. In other words, all the 48-bit software instantly became fully
64-bit compatible without the tremendous cost in time and effort of
rewriting everything from scratch as was required by Microsoft's move from
16-bit to 32-bit. So, why not criticize Microsoft instead for creating the
need to rewrite (and re-purchase) thousands of software packages?

I run Win98 and TMG is one of the most stable applications I use. In fact,
it's some of the Microsoft applications that give me the most problems. I'm
willing to bet that due to the nature of the Windows environment, there will
be just as many complaints of instability from people running the 32-bit
version as there are now with the 16-bit version.

Chris Andrle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Shook" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:52 AM
Subject: [TMG] TMG 32-bit

> Gee, 32-bit technology has been available since 1993/4 and was, more
> less, standardized across the software industry in 1995. I find it
> unblievable that TMG is NOT 32-bit. Wholly Genes and Bob Velke have to
> be wasting a huge amount of technical support time on issues that are
> DIRECTLY related to the 16-bit versus 32-bit issue. It's obvious just
> from the number of posts on TMG-L and the TMG Genforum list.
>
> I would venture to guess that there are only a couple of readers of
> TMG-L that even use Microsoft 3.1 or DOS operating systems. The vast
> majority of computer users are using Win95 or newer operating systems.
> Given this fact, Velke is woefully behind the curve. Fact is fact that
> cannot be rationalized by Wholly Genes' small staff. There are literally
> hundreds of small software firms that have 32-bit software packages.
> Personally, I feel that 6 years is long enough to have to wait for a TMG
> version that uses the industry standard - and I'm really getting tired
> of the crashes and freezups and the dozen or so work-arounds that I have
> to go through to get my TMG stable. TMG is the only software that I use
> that invariably crashes or freezes up.
>
> Steve Shook
>
>


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