From: John Beckett 

Ellen K.  wrote in message
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> 1.  If you open a DOS program, the CPU zooms up to 100% (ergo slowing
> everything else down) until you close it.    I think this one is pretty
> well known.   You can see it for yourself by opening edit from the
> command line.

Opening Edit would not do this. There are *some* programs that behave as
Antti explained, but in general DOS programs do not have this effect under
NT/W2k/XP.

A more likely explanation is that you had the IPX network procotol to talk
to some Netware servers, together with the Client Service for Netware. For
some incredibly stupid reason, that really can foul up 16-bit apps under
NT/W2k.

Actually I'm changing my mind because I just read your other post about
this, and I see the app was Clipper. I have no knowledge of Clipper
internals, but it is quite possible that it is one of the few apps that the
operating system has trouble taming in the way that Tony mentioned.

John

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