Hi Will,
WH> The only meaningful test to me is 'how much can I do how fast'.  With
    I hear ya. As I get older, I find my machines are doing it faster than I 
can think it and the gap is *widening* :)
WH> neighborhood of 40 meg.  Of course there is some benefit of additional
WH> memory, especially for real memory hogs like the Visual Builder
WH> (shudder), but there does seem to be a point of diminishing returns.
    I see some individual programs that seem to take advantage of the extra 
memory better that others. I'm not enough of a programer to know why but I do 
notice it. Unfortunatly, it's not the programs that I use the most. I still 
feel like some adjusting is in order but that will come in time.
WH> when the NIC's drivers load OK but it doesn't see the net - cable
WH> disconnected, unterminated, etc., OR when the setup has gotten fouled
WH> up and it tries to use the wrong connector on a multi-interface board.
    I'm starting to think it's the latter. I did a fresh new reinstall just 
o
see what happens with no fixpacks installed and now everthing seems to load 
and start except the last line in my congig.sys:
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\MACS\NE2000WC.OS
    That comes up using the generic drivers from hobbes. I get the sys1201 
message that the driver didn't load and now it just can't start the 
equester.
I was thinking it was an uncompatable clone as I tried it with plug&pray 
enabled and disabled. When I'm adding file and print shareing, it does find 
the card but I do have to change the settings to IRQ10 (SB now on 5) and an 
I/O address of 280. When I boot to dos and run the set up program, this is 
what the card is reporting.
    I plan on persuing this further in the OS2LAN echo. I feel like I'm real 
close now :) BTW, I did change the cable and terminators.
ttyl...   Keith Kottwitz
        KeithK@infoave.net
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