Ian Smith wrote in a message to Gord Hannah:

 IS> good to hear the ol' DESQVIEW echo is still active.

Not like it used to be,  last time I looked in there...

 GH> I have been running Binkley under DV for over 5 years now
 GH> without any problems perhaps this might help:

 IS> Over 7 years here; boringly solid, best (noticed) uptime
 IS> over 3 months :) 

Been a while here,  too.  One of these days I'm gonna finish getting OS/2
set up,  though.

 GH> Uses serial ports (Y,N,1,2)..........: [2]

 IS> I load BNU before DV, and so use N for that.  Otherwise,
 IS> aboot the same.

Oh really?  I load bnu in the bink window,  so I have that set to 2 as
well.  I read somewhere a while back that loading BNU was better done in
the window, while X00 was better to load before DV.

 GH> This system is 386DX/40 8MB RAM Dos 6.2 DV 2.63  Qemm 7.04.

About the same here,  except I upped it to 16M ram a while back,  and it's
a 5x86/133,  a bit faster.    I used to run on a 386dx40 w/8M, 
though.

 IS> 386sx16, 6Mb, DOS 5, DV 2.34, QEMM 5.13 :)  

SX16?  Really?  I guess some of those old boards I have around might prove
useful after all,  maybe.  

 IS> Not broke, so I've never fixed it. Running the same 9 tasks 
 IS> it's run next to forever, and it's never quit unless I've tried 
 IS> out some mad game or such, or the power fails.  It's long just 
 IS> done Fidonet stuff though .. the real computers here run OS/2 
 IS> and FreeBSD.

That's a little further down on my list,  after I get OS/2 up and running
here,  Linux probably.  And networking.

 IS> Michael didn't say what Bink his friend runs.  2.60 here. 
 IS> Before that 2.59 and (overlayed) predecessors ran in 384-400K, 
 IS> but 2.60 needs most of the 528K I give it here. The XR DOS 
 IS> versions that do work in DV may well need more ..

I'm still using 2.60 here as well.

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