Hi Mike,

> I'm not suggesting an answer, just have a further question.  Long ago and
far
> away in the WIN-95/98 world, it was said in the OS/2 circles that the
prime
> reason for this sort of thing and also the inability to run more than one
> communications related DOS application at a time was this; WIN at that
time was
> still a process-oriented issue, with respect to task switching.  OS/2 on
the
> other hand, was a thread-oriented issue, with respect to task switching.
Thus,
> although the exact problem you describe wasn't the issue for work we were
> doing, but something else maybe related might be.

True - unfortunately, I stopped running OS/2 about 2 years ago, ran
multinode RA on it without problems, but can't move back unfortunately (for
a variety of reasons) & don't want to move to Linux (far too steep a
learning curve there for me!)

> We found that you simply could kiss goodbye to more than one instance of
> running some of my older DOS executables on a WIN95/98 box.  The whole box
> slowed to a crawl when the second application was started on a given box.
In
> contrast, I've had as many as half a dozen DOS-VDM's running in OS/2 with
my
> programs happy as a clam with each other, and with multiple comm port I/O
at
> the same time.

I suspect it's Max - the problem doesn't occur with 3 three RA nodes that
also exist on this machine (CPU usage runs about 5% total with those), & of
course, it only happens once the second node fires up. May just have to live
with it unless someone decides to update the DOS or NT versions. As I
mentioned in my previous message, I'd run the NT version, but it seems to
think I have no disk space available....   the DOS version doesn't have this
problem, go figure!


cheers,

Lance




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