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From: kmcvay@oneb (Ken McVay)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win 3.0 & high speed modem use
Keywords: uart,hst,frontdoor
Message-ID: <26a1d32f-20comp.windows.ms@oneb>
Date: 16 Jul 90 15:30:02 GMT
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I have ordered Windows 3.0 to see if I can run my FrontDoor email system
inside it, background and foreground.

Comments within the bbs community suggest that it won't work, because the
comm driver can't handle the locked bus (locked @38400).

The modem, an external USR HST 14.4, is driven through an NA16550 buffered
UART. 

Has anyone had any experience with background communications under Win 3.0,
or any communications at all? Anyone got a bbs running?

The dos mail system runs on a 286/20MHz system with 2 megs of RAM, and it
would be nice to be able to utilize all the memory...DV knows it is there,
but won't make it available for anything but swaps, and that's just not good
enough - will Win 3.0 recognize and permit me to _use_ the RAM between 1024k
and 2048k?