Thus spake Mike (erazmus@WANTREE.COM.AU):

> >> Or use multithreading.
> >
> >Not an option for a 16 bit app.
>
> Why not ?
>
> Isn't that an operating system and program development issue not one
> of word size ?

16 bit in this context refers to Win16, which is an API, as opposed to
Win32, which is also an API. The fact that Win16 and win32 programs use
16 and 32 bit word lengths is incidental to this discussion. Win16
programs will run under Windows 3.1, Win32 will not. Windows 3.1, and
therefore Win16, does not offer multi-threading. MPLAB is a Win16
program. Microchip have not announced when they will produce a Win32
version.

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