IIRC FPD, and perhaps other DOS apps, poll the keyboard continuously which can drive the CPU up. I seem to remember some trick that reduces that activity but can't recall it at the moment. I believe it involved setting some property in a PIF...
Peter Cushing wrote: > Gary Sutherland wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll go back to the customer and >> see if any of them help. NTVDM does seem to be a bit of a bucket of >> worms though, eh? >> > We get near 100% CPU utilisation on normal workstations running our FPD > app, unless we install TAMEDOS, which works great. > I can also run a program that came with our terminal server software > called DOSBOSS.EXE, which does the same thing. >
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