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From: greg@hprnd.HP.COM (Greg Dolkas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet / DESQview
Message-ID: <2230034@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 19:08:28 GMT
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Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division
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I, too, had problems with NCSA 2.2D.  I found that the standard 2.1 release
didn't have near the problems under DESQview.  It still crashes once in a while,
but with an acceptable MTBF, and only when things get real hairy.  I regularly
run NCSA as the only program RUNNING in background with 6-10 other programs
loaded.  On occasion I let other programs run in background, and so far I
haven't been able to blame any of them directly on a crash.

I have an HP Vectra ES/12 (12 mhz 286) with 4 meg.

My guess is that the extra features in 2.2D eat up too much CPU time, which
gets the LAN driver in trouble by being timesliced in the middle of  
something important.

If you don't need the added features, try 2.1.

Greg.