There IS a DOS window capability in Windoze ME. However, there is NO
capability to boot to DOS. You'd have to do the usual careful partitioning
and have a multiple-boot capability outside of Windoze, with all the
implications you state. This is my understanding from reading; I have not
generated the interest to install ME to find out for myself.
However, I got the impression that ME (like NT) gives one the ability to set
relative priorities of work as a property of the object. Thus, it *might*
be possible to avoid most/all of the pauses.
Interestingly enough, for years I used TR on my Win95 P75/24MB laptop, an
IBM Thunkpad. No issues running it under windoze. However, for the NAQP I
moved all to my new spiffy hand-me-down ham shack machine, a Win 98SE
P200MMX/128MB and the pauses drove me to distraction! Never did track down
the cause.
Is there a compiled list of critters causing these pauses that I could use?
Maybe I could use it to compare the two systems.
I finally used an NAQP break to reboot to DOS. No more pauses, but the
whole thing was uniformly slower and a royal pain. This was a Windoze
reboot to DOS, not booting DOS from a flippy, or natively from its own
primary partition.
CUL/73,
Gary W2CS
| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
| Behalf Of Guy Olinger, K2AV
| Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 7:26 PM
| To: TR LOG REFLECTOR
| Subject: [TRLog] No DOS box in Windows Millenium? That true?
|
|
|
| Can't find it at the moment but saw something that there is no DOS
| prompt in Windows ME, the replacement for W98. Guess we will have to get
| good at dual boots or something.
|
| One of the real problems in dual booting back to DOS in an environment
| where all except contest operating in W98 is keeping an un-winnified
| logical drive that can be read by DOS.
|
| Anybody hear something? False rumor? Or is there something for DOS to
| read long filenames, FAT32 and work with large drive support?
|
| OS/2, Linux, NT and Win 2K all can introduce "system pauses" which
| create ugly breaks in TR's rhythm.
|
| Any way in Linux to shove TR to system priority to eliminate the pauses?
|
| Or Win 98 forever?
|
| Or TR for Windows? (Lewallen finally gave up and did EZNEC, though I
| think he used up a seventeen year supply of cuss words doing it. BTW,
| his Windows implementation is slick and it is definitely FASTER than the
| old version running in a DOS box. )
|
| - - . . . . . . - - . . . . - - . . - . .
|
| 73, Guy
| k2av@contesting.com
| Apex, NC, USA
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