Subj : D'Bridge 3.99/SR44 released and avai
To : Nick Andre
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Tue Jun 18 2019 07:07 pm
On Tue Jun-18-2019 16:23, Nick Andre (1:229/426) wrote to Roger Nelson:
NA> On 18 Jun 19 09:28:35, Roger Nelson said the following to Mark
NA> Lewis:
RN> I am willing to be proven wrong because I have been before.
RN>
RN> Bo Nick, if I have been running, as mark says, on a single-core, then I
RN> shouldn't have any problem, should I?
NA> If you start Windows Task Manager and it reports more than one CPU
NA> core, then you should be running using the shortcut I created for
NA> you; which tells the mailer to use only one core.
NA> The reason for this, is because the D'Bridge code in how it runs on
NA> NTVDM, which is the Windows DOS service, is not properly supported
NA> for multi-core usage. It appears the system timer is not properly
NA> emulated or reported.
NA> The tell-tale sign of this problem is when D'Bridge hangs (freezes)
NA> completely at the midnight Auto-Update event. The clock seconds
NA> freeze at zero.
That's why Chris had us create a dummy echo to prevent that from happening and
it has worked for years and still does.
NA> If the problem still occurs with startup delays on Windows 7, then
NA> we need to do troubleshooting as I mentioned before. I am not
NA> seeing anything outright which would be causing this problem to
NA> happen.
If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to, My Intel
G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core. After I post messages,
the system sends the mail to standby and hangs, but any other program I want to
run will work.
