On 24 Jul 2005 22:15:58 -0700, "RetroMIDI" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Software is written in Borland Pascal 7 to run under Win98 MS-DOS and
>makes use of MAIL SLOTS to communicate across a network between dozens
>of PCs in a sound/music/graphics "sculpture" or installation.
>Problem is to get a Win98 MS-DOS network implemented.
>Things run fine with a full-screen DOS window under Windows 98 SE. But
>most machine cycles are wasted/stolen by Windows. Thus Win98 DOS
>"command prompt only" is much better.
I wouldn't be too worried about windows CPU overhead. If you use a
program like wintop when there is no MSDOS box or program running, you
can see the overhead is about 3%.
Most of the CPU cycles are actually stolen by the msdsos command
prompt box, not by the windows GUI. I don't know if there is a Delphi
CPU idle yield timeslice command, but it would free up CPU time.
>Know next-to-nothing about networking and battling to learn. Have tried
>network boot disks available on the Net (such as Bart's) but get a
>system crash as soon as software runs. Commands such as NET VIEW do not
>work either.
I think you might be better off using dos under windows, or just use
windows networking. Once the windows networking is established, you
can use msdos 'net' commands anyway.
Sig:
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
|
Similar Threads
