Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!okstate!drd!john
From: john@DRD.Com (John Horeth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fastback DMA failure (8237A-5) defective chip
Summary: DMA Tests on Fastback Plus - Fails on MS-DOS 4.01 using V1.01
Keywords: Fastback, DMA
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.020948.29914@DRD.Com>
Date: 28 Nov 89 02:09:48 GMT
References: <1247@adds.newyork.NCR.COM>
Sender: john@drd.Com (John Horeth)
Reply-To: john@drd.Com (John Horeth)
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I just had an interesting experience.

I have version 1.01 of Fastback Plus and tried to bring up on MS-DOS 4.01. The
DMA test repeatedly failed.  I called Fifth Generation (authors of Fastback)
and they said that version 1.01 would not run on 4.01 (it does on 3.3), but 
that their lastest version would.  I proved their claim by getting version
2.01 to work on MS-DOS 4.01.  So I now have a copy of Fastback Plus V2.01 on
order.

So the moral of the story is not only does your version of Fastback Plus count
but also your level of MS-DOS.

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