Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> Hi Roy.

 JB> 09-Aug-03 04:05:50, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Tom Walker

 RJT> I'm wondering if there's any possibility of some software glitch
 RJT> causing this? The other thing that I found when I got back from
 RJT> being away is a big pile of mail sitting in my inbound directory,
 RJT>  something had screwed up as far as QEMM was concerned and I had
 RJT> to re-run Optimize in order to get the system to work reliably,
 RJT> also had to fiddle with the memory settings for the bbs and the
 RJT> tosser windows.  I guess I get to do that again if I change the
 RJT> video card.  I don't recognize all of the address regions being
 RJT> excluded,  which are C000-C2FF, C500-C5FF, F800-FCFF, and
 RJT> FE00-FFFF.  That last two look like rom bios or something,  not
 RJT> sure about the other two

 JB> Scope 'em with debug if they're rom usually there's a signature
 JB> near the start

Good idea.

 JB> what've you got in there?

 JB>  VGA          - all have rom
 JB>  SCSI         - most have rom
 JB>  Netwoek card - some have rom

 JB> then if any of those deviuces have memory mapped I/O they could
 JB> appear in that list too and be harder to identify.

Yeah.  I've put it aside,  stuck another card in there last night,  and am
back to seeing things with colors again.  I paid something like $12 for
that card a couple of years ago,  and got my money's worth out of it,  so
it's no big deal at this point.

 RJT> Has this echo been _that_ slow

 JB> it's been around 10-30 per day for the last few weeks if memory
 JB> serves 

I'm seeing significantly less than that here.  Total sitting here at the
moment is just a bit over 1000,  and that's 60 days worth.  Typical
fido-glitch stuff...

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