Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!ricks.enet.dec.com!reisert From: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: QEMM 5.0 Slo-o-o-o-ws system DMA Message-ID: <13085@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 4 Jul 90 17:51:54 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 32 In article <11250143@hpldola.HP.COM>, ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul Austgen) writes... > >I also seem to remember reading in the manual that Desqview will >not spend multitasking time on a program that is waiting for >keyboard input only. This isn't strictly true, I think. If a program is continually polling the keyboard, it will still chew up CPU time until its slot has expired. There is a memory-resident program called TAME, written by David G. Thomas and Powersoft, that is supposed to prematurely vacate a program's slot if there is no keyboard input. I've found it very effective in making my communications windows run more smoothly under DESQview. The program can be found on SIMTEL20 as: PD1:TAME230.ZIP So in your case, even if the program is just waiting for input, it's better to not allow it to run in the background, unless you have TAME. jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ricks.enet!reisert 77 Reed Road Hudson, MA 01749-2895