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- From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Running a BBS under DOS, OS/2 ... CONTINUED!
- Message-ID: <2598@aegis.or.jp>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 23:01:24 GMT
- References: <Bu7pqK.Dp5@news.udel.edu>
- Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan
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- radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
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- >Several people have written suggesting that I use DesqView/386 for my
- >multitasking work, rather than Windows or OS/2. I have tried DV-386
- >in the past, and it is an excellent multitasker.
-
- >However, the reason I specifically mentioned Windows and OS/2 is that
- >I have a bunch of graphical programs I don't want to give up (Word for
- >Windows, PageMaker, etc.). I'd like to be able to run the BBS in a
- >minimized window while editing a paper with Word, for example. The
- >overhead involved in loading a separate copy of Windows in a DesqView
- >window makes this even slower than running Windows itself.
-
- In my follow-up I specifically didn't mention DesqView as I've found
- that it can't do all of what you said you wanted to do while maintaining
- constant/max speed.
-
- >From the responses I've gotten so far, it seems the only choice that
- >gives me real multitasking, access to the apps I like to use, and
- >extra goodies like background mail processing seems to be OS/2.
-
- Perhaps, I don't know all that much about OS/2. At the time I made
- my decision to move onto real multitasking system the affordable and
- available options seemed to be either UNIX or QNX.
-
- >So here's the big question: Can I have an OS/2 BBS program -- say
- >Maximus -- invoke a DOS door game? If this is possible, then Maximus
- >and Binkley under OS/2 would seem to have everything I need.
- >Does anyone know if this can be done?
-
- As I said, before, I have real doubts you will be able to run
- everything you want on a single 386/486 machine under *any* OS.
- Just processing news slows a 486MHz + 15 MS ESDI drive down!
-
- IMHO the only way to fully handle the speed problem is to have
- a LAN of multiple-machines which look like one to users, but
- can spread the load across the hardware.
-
- If you have doubts about this, perhaps you can find somebody who's
- got something similar to what you have in mind and log onto their
- system and see how it actually runs. For sure if you log onto
- mine, drop into the shell, and say
-
- $ find / >/tmp/junk. & # find every file as background task
-
- Then try to run any program, you'll find that it's been slowed down.
-
- Depending on the amount of money you're thinking about, there
- probably isn't an easy solution to the speed problem. However,
- if your seriously interested in maintaining a constant speed,
- I would definitely have a system that can not only multi-task
- but multi-task across mulitiple machines!
-
- You know, "The better it runs, the better we want it to run."
-
- >Thanks to all who've written so far. Keep those ideas coming!
-
- Hope what I've said helps,
-
- Dave
-
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- Dave McLane
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