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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Windows 3.0 compatible packet driver
Message-ID: <3130021@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 05:25:03 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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I do not know about your packet driver, but I have a comment about trying to
run multiple telnet sessions under MSWindows 3.0.  

MSWindows3 does not have true multi-tasking, particularly in support of
MS-DOS programs running under MSWindows (in comparison to MSWindows
applications).  There are many things that can delay or stop an MS-DOS
program that is running in the background from getting any clock ticks.
Since telnet requires a constant communication (I do not know how
frequent, but it is regular) it is quite common to have any telnet
sessions running in the background to close.  This happens with the
telnet in PC-NFS from Sun, and the one in PC/TCP from FTP Software, both
of which access the LAN card via device drivers.

So, while you can start up several sessions, you will probably not like
having such connections drop randomly, irregularly.