On Wednesday, 9 December 1998,
     MIKE RUSKAI wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about that darn window boost!!!

 MR> [big snip]
 IT>> I later eliminated the FG Boost too, since I never did like it, and
 IT>> it was giving me quite a headache when some stupid keyboard-polling
 IT>> DOS app was in the foreground, doing nothing, and yet sucking up all
 IT>> the cycles, and unneccesarilly slowing down my background apps.
 MR> [big snip]

 MR> You are aware, are you not, of the IDLE_SENSITIVITY and IDLE_SECONDS
 MR> settings for DOS sessions?

  Yes, but they don't help much... I have them at minimum for most DOS
  sessions, but there are some comm programs which miss bytes when you
  set their IDLE_SENSITIVITY too low, and hog the CPU otherwise :(((

  There is one other thing I noticed: when a DOS program hogs the CPU,
  even though the CPU meter shows 100% CPU usage, most of the OS/2 apps
  start and run OK and they slow down just a little, but other DOS
  sessions almost grind to a halt! Do you see that on your machine?

  This is not such an issue any more, since I almost totally migrated to
  native OS/2 programs, except for some rare DOS apps like this QWK
  reader I'm using right now... and it multitasks under OS/2 better than
  even some native OS/2 programs! It detects which multitasker it's
  being run under (detects a whole bunch of them, including OS/2,
  win3.1, win95, winNT, Desqview, Topview etc) and releases cycles
  accordingly. It uses the undocumented DOS INT 28 when run under OS/2.


                                                            - Ivan -

.!. The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
.!. they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge
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