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From: wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DesqView,,,,again
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Date: 25 May 90 22:10:48 GMT
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	Ok.  You idiots are pissing me off!!  I did not state the
obvious because I thought it too mondain!!  Here is what the problem is!
Take note!!

	Machine:
		Tandy 4000 (16 Mhz - 80386)
		4 Meg memory
		80 Meg SCSI HD w/ Adaptec controller (Firmware on board)
		VGA graphics and monitor

	Cards:
		Apple Talk Network
		Serial/Parallel Board (1 each)
		Amdek CD controller
		40 meg Tape back-up  (slow as hell)
			(actually runs off of the on board drive
			 controller as drive B:, but is not recognized
			 as drive B:)

	Periphs:
		Amdek Laserdrive-1
		Toshiba printer

	Software:
		DOS 3.3
		QEMM-386 v. 4.20
		DESQview 386 v. 1.0

This is what will not happen....
	Mouse drive (Mouse.Sys or mouse.com) will not go into high 
memory (.sys locks machine, .com goes somewhere because returns to DOS
prompt.  Virtual machines do not come up (the box claims it will do it).
No other *.sys files will go into high memory.  Tape backup programme
has a TSR part that will load into memory, but never activate (supposed
to tell you when to backup at a certain time).  Mouse does not work in
Desqview, but in Quick C & QUick BASIC and Tandy Deskmate.  Tape backup
programme will not run in window.  Appletalk printing programme hangs
machine every once in awhile while running in a window (does not from
DOS).  R:BASE for DOS 2.11 runs very slow in a window (even when alone).
Every window must be smaller than 459k (DOS uses this much with minimal
drivers installed).  GEM software does not run.  If any graphics
programme is run (interface that is, GUI) or is a programme uses the 48
line mode of VGA (line number maybe wrong, cannot remember the size),
then life is being taken into own hands (locks, losses data, etc).
PC:File-db looses data when run in a window (as well as PC:File+).

I have done the following:
	Taken every unneeded card out and re-booted.  Called tech
support dozen times.  excluded everything in video memory, tried almost
every possible combination of parameters.

I do use the shell command in config.sys to increase the environment.

-bryon lape-