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From: bcw@duke.UUCP (Bruce C. Wright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: AST board experience
Message-ID: <4287@duke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 17:07:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 17:07:56 1984
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I have an AST board which has caused no problems (it's one of the
6-pack boards).  The only gripe I have is that there seem to be
some problems with the spooler software which comes with it - it
does work **much, much** faster than the DOS 2.0 print spooler -
when it works!!  Often if you do anything (it can be as innocuous
as a DIR) while the spooler is reading anything from disk, the
system gets wedged somehow and must be rebooted by turning the
machine off (CTL-ALT-DEL doesn't work).  Ugh.  I've tried several
combinations but none seem to work, so I gave up on it since I
don't have time at the moment to figure out if it's DOS, the
spooler, or me which is causing the problem.   Ran on a bit about
the spooler problem, it's not really causing any trouble (now that
we're not using it), the rest of the product (hardware & software)
seem to work great.

			Bruce C. Wright