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From: wcr@branch.FIDONET.ORG (W.c. Rothanburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and 2 comm ports
Message-ID: <3678.2598407B@branch.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 27 Dec 89 03:54:42 GMT
Organization: The Branch Office, Pompano Beach, Florida.  (305) 979-2073
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> The manual doesn't address such a screwy
> application.
> Desqview handles background communications very
> nicely.  However,
> could one be running a BBS on COM1: while using Crosstalk to
> dial out on
> COM2: -- two asynchronous protocols going on simultaneously
> in separate
> applications? Has anybody tried this?  (This assumes two
> phone numbers.)
 
I know that people were running 3-node BBS's under deskqview.  You will need to make sure that both applications are not swapped out of memory.  (That's where expanded memory is nice..:-)
 
Bill

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