VP/ix could be good...
William E. Davidsen Jr
davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Tue Jan 31 04:43:12 AEST 1989
In article <5980005 at hplsla.HP.COM> jeffh at hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) writes:
| 3) IT'S BUGGY- I've found a number or "unexplainable" lock=ups,
| missing key strokes, sluggish keyboard response,
| (what the heck happened?) stuff...
It's not bug-free, but I haven't seen anything like the number of
problems you imply. I don't lose keystrokes, for instance, even in
programs which poll instead of using the keyboard BIOS call.
| 4) DOS APPLICATIONS DON'T WORK- Several DOS pplications don't!
| Try saving a "FIRST CHOICE" file for example.
| Or try using 800X600 drivers..
Graphics stuff using foreign drivers doesn't work, agreed. I would
love to use the 640x480 EGA card I have, not spend $k or so for a VGA
and monitor.
| 6) HUMAN INTERFACE- My wife uses an XT at school. We've got a
| 20MHz 386, 4MB ram, 80MB disk, 20MHz 80387
| and a Paradise VGA+ card with a multi-sync
| monitor. In VP/ix she complains that our
| system is SLOWER than the XT she uses at
| school???
Let's just say I disagree with you... screen updates may be somewhat
slower than a dedicated DOS machine, but I see no reason to believe that
disk and CPU are significantly impacted.
| 7) SERIAL MOUSE- It works- off and on.
The mouse with the Dell325 seems to work pretty well, and someone else
here is using one on a Compaq running Windows. I have heard horror
stories, but I haven't seen it myself.
| 8) TIME OF DAY- runs slowwwwwwww.
Yes. I update the time of day from the hardware clock, and set the
hardware clock from NBS. There is a command to diddle the clock rate
(sorry, can't remember it) which I haven't tried. I think I looked at it
and decided the documentation was bad, even for UNIX. I'm not sure that
VP/ix is the cause, since I see time drift with 2.3.1 even without VP/ix
running (but it is on the disk).
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My big botch is that I can't make CGI work. I had it working with 2.2.1
(upgraded to 2.2.3) and VP/ix beta, but it just flat won't work with the
new version. Now instead of using a separate DOS machine for parallel
graphics development, I can use a separate Xenix machine.
--
bill davidsen (wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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