Brian Gregory wrote on 10/14/2018 7:24 AM:
On 14/10/2018 07:04, Jeff Barnett wrote:
[Win 7 Pro SP1 64-bit with I7-4930K CPU]

Several years ago it was difficult to use the DEP capability provided
by modern hardware because both older programs and the OS played silly
tricks to save a microsecond here and there. I, like most of you I
presume, only turned on DEP capability for OS functions. My question
is what is recommended for today given that I'm no longer running all
those old 95, 98, and XP programs that I thought I couldn't live
without? Is it now standard to turn DEP on for everything? It's been
years since I've seen any discussion of this topic and I'd like to get
caught up.

I run many different programs old and new on my Windows 7 systems.
I think there has been only one program I ever found that needed to run
with DEP switched off. (Part of an old version of Maxima (a computer
algebra system)).

Interesting: I have Maxima on my computer and the disk and code for
Macsyma too. I haven't used either in years.
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Jeff Barnett