From:    John Musselwhite                       Area: Protocols
To:      Hubert Kowalczyk                        1 May 92 09:15:02
Subject: Max and Windows                        

Hello Hubert!
27 Apr 92, Hubert Kowalczyk writes to John Musselwhite:
 HK>  Can you tell me what do you mean by EXTREMELY well...???
    The BBS runs in the BG, I can do ANYTHING I can do in DOS at a reasonable 
speed (not mind-blowing, but fast enough) and my users do NOT complain about 
the speed of the BBS which is about as fast as it was on the 286.
 HK> I have tried runnig
 HK> max under windows and I have seen a big difference in speed, access time
 HK> and whole bunch of other things.  OS/2 is mode for mulitasking and as we
 HK> all all know windows is NOT a multitasker.  So how can you say that MAX
 HK> runs great under WIN?
    If there are no errors and little speed loss, I'd say it runs great... 
What more do you want? Besides, if Win isn't a multitasker how come I can 
multitask with it?
 HK> What other programs can you run  same time with MAX ?
    I only have 4 meg so I can't do TOO many things while Max is running, but 
if I do one (or maybe two) things at once it is fine. Examples while the BBS 
is running: Golded, SmartII (All modules), a second line, a local BBS 
(bare-bones Max), Telemate (I can call out and DL something while somebody 
else is on the board) etc. I have yet to find ANYTHING that won't run while 
the BBS is running... I can even run Telemate and the BBS in the smallest 
font windows, call my BBS and download while watching BOTH windows at once!
 HK> I noticed that you can run to major problems once you have something
 HK> big open besides  MAXIMUS.  CPS rate goes down and then you know what
 HK> happens next...:)
    Actually, no I don't. B-})  Zmodem transfers may drop by 1 or 2 percent 
(down to 228 or so), other protocols aren't affected by much either. Now, I'm 
not running Excel of W4W or anything, mostly just DOS programs...
 P.S>>>> Have you seen OS/2 2.0?
    Not yet, but I've heard lots about it. I MAY make the switch if I can free 
up some hard drive space... 250 megs of drive space and I've STILL only got 
5% free!  B-})  This sounds like the usual multitasker wars and I'm not going 
to get involved. Needless to say, if you can afford OS/2 and the HD space it 
is probably a good investment. If you already HAVE Win (especially 3.1) it 
will work too. Personally, I find it easier and more reliable than even DV...
        John...



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