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In <1992Oct27.4878.7543@dosgate> "norman mcnerney" <norman.mcnerney@canrem.com> writes:


>I need some help.

>I've been running Remote Access v1.11 on for about a year and I decided to
>expand.  I picked up OS/2 and have been trying to run three nodes each in its
>own DOS session under OS/2.

>I'm using a 486-33 w/128k cache and a 200 meg drive.

>So far I have successfully gotten two of the nodes up (although for one reason
>or another one of them goes down on a daily basis and I've had no success in
>getting the third up at all due to problems with OS/2) but I've run into one big
>problem. My biggest problem is that when someone is uploading or downloading
>files on one node the other is as slow as molasses on a winter's day.  I am
>running a utility that makes RA Desqview aware to allow timeslicing(?).

>Questions:

>1) Any suggestion on how to get the three (or even two) nodes to work
>   successfully under OS/2? (i.e. stop going down and pick up the speed)

Switch to a non-DOS based BBS.  DOS interrupts tend to beat OS/2 to
death, because it has to simulate the hardware for that, and of course
COMM ports are interrupt driven.  Rather than switching multitaskers,
I would suggest switching to Maximus or some other OS/2-based BBS
system so you can use the native tasking.  There are lots of things
you can try with the settings of the DOS boxes, but you're only going
to be able to gain so much from that.

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