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David Ploch <dwploc@monsanto.com> wrote in reply to
Mike de Laine <systemmcd@sa.gov.au>:

>
>> I am attempting to get a 386 running Windows in 386 enhanced mode using a
>> Digital DEPCA Ethernet board with DEPCA mouse.
>>
>>  [stuff deleted]
>>
>> Can anybody help or must I wait for LANWorks/Pathworks/???works?
>>
>>       Mike de Laine,
>
>        We are currently trying to use WIN3.0 and PCSA.  We are not using
>DEPCA boards.  3COM 3C523's and 3C503's are our standards.  The BAD news
>is:  DEC has finally told us that PCSA 3.0 will DEFINATELY NOT work with
>WIN3.0.  There seems to be some timeing problems in the PCSA code when
>running under Windows.  The DEC code is not getting enough time to do its
>thing.  We have found that the software will work but not consistantly.
>Your final comments asking if you must wait for Pathworks leads me to believe
>you are not currently using the PCSA product.
>
>David Ploch

We are running VMS V5.4 (recently, what follows also worked under V5.2),
PCSA 3.1 and Windows 3.0 on IBM PS/2's, Compact 386's and Tangent 386's
using DEPCA rev.E's (except in the IBM where we use a 3COM 523(?) card).
We don't use all the features of PCSA (like remote booting, printer
queues, etc.) but mostly its LAT support and transparent file access to
our VAXcluster disks, for via _Disk Services_ and _File Services_, and
it WORKS!  Even backups of PC hard disks to the VAX disk work.
Note the *V3.1* for PCSA, you probably need that...

*However*, we have not been able to make the three-button DEPCA-attached
mouse work since Windows 2 (or 286, whatever it was called).  I find this
extremely annoying and I've told DEC so.  I spent about 6 weeks last Spring
trying to get a solution out of Atlanta to no avail.  There is a DEPCA
mouse driver "hidden" in one of the subdirectories of the PC Client
piece of the software, I think its the one the original poster was talking
about, but it "not supported": some DEC employee wrote it on his own time
and it doesn't quite work (crashes the PC, etc.).

My users would LOVE to use the DEC mouse.  So here's a question to the net:

        Has anyone written a driver or otherwise made the DEC 3-button
        mouse work under Windows 386 *or* Windows 3.0?  Do the more
        recent DEPCA rev's (F,G,H) work any differently/better in this
        respect?

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