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- From: krader@sequent.com (Kurtis D. Rader)
- Subject: Re: Fastback and OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.061939.21789@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul28.020623.5364@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Distribution: sqnt
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 06:19:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.045124.6653@sequent.com> krader@sequent.com writes:
- >>>I spent roughly four hours trying to get FastBack to work without
- >>>success. The symptoms lead me to believe that FastBack is attempting
- >>>low level manipulation of the hardware which OS/2 won't allow a
- >>>normal DOS application to perform. I called Fifth Generation Systems
- >>>but they said they had no plans for an OS/2 version.
-
- jmp1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JEFFREY MICHAEL PARSONS) writes:
- >Also, it has been established on this group that FastBack v2.xx works fine.
-
- My apologies to all. I should have stated that I have version 3.0
- (FastBack Plus) which had been running without a problem (not to
- mention blindingly fast) on my current hardware configuration under
- DR-DOS 6.0 with Qaulitas QEMM.
-
- Under OS/2 it fails the hardware test to determine the optimum DMA
- speed for its operation. I note that the manual mentions the need to
- add "DMABufferSize=20" to the system.ini file when running Windows
- 386Enhanced mode, but I've been unable to determine what the
- equivalent might be under OS/2.
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