Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!369!8!Rick.Alfaro
From: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Alfaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: desqview and speech
Message-ID: <12960@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 20:16:56 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/8 - The Catwalk BBS, Davie FL
Lines: 47
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 9344

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

> Don that is great that he got desqview working with the 
> sounding board and vocaleyes.  Now, we have to get it to 
> work with accent, and jaws.

Walter,

The key to the whole Desqview and speech thing is the 386 machine!
I have gotten desqview working on a 286 with speech, but it is very
difrerent and almost useless in my opinion because of the amount of
useable memory by desqview.  On a 386, the memory management is
quite different and desqview will use all available expanded memory
for your diferent tasks, thereby freeing up your conventional dos
memory.  Even folks that are sighted and have no special drivers
like we have for speech, have found out that using desqview on a
286 has very limited usefullness at best.  There is one way of
getting a little more out of a 286 with desqview, but it envolves
dropping the memory on your mother board to 256K and configuring
the rest aove that as expanded memory.  I believe this procedeure
is called "back filling" and is the only way that desqview will
recognize any expanded memory in your machine.  If you don't use
this back filling technique, desqview will only take advantage of
64k of your extended memory if you use a special driver they
provide.  All the rest of desqview is put into conventional memory
leaving you very little to work with for other tasks.  I may have a
couple of things not quite correct here, but generally speaking,
this is what I understand the situation to be.  I think that a 386
with speech and something like desqview could have a lot of
possibilities for us blinks. This could especially be true if some
of the software developers started to pay a little attention to
multitasking environments such as Desqview and perhaps someday make
their software "desqview aware".  I am really glad to see some
speech users getting into this multitasking stuff.  I only have 286
machines, so unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure of trying to
get desqview working with speech on a 386.  Someday, I hope to be
able to give this a shot.  I would be really interested in hearing
from anyone else that has done some experimenting with multitasking
and speech...

Regards, Rick

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!369!8!Rick.Alfaro
Internet: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org