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If you do not use PE applications at all (speaking of my experience) the system is just fine. Problems start once you use some PE applications which don't fare too well with either extensions or the memory scheme (I would assume as I haven't been able to point my finger on it yet)I replied to some of this in the other mail but what do you mean about 'extensions' which extensions do you refer to.
Maybe it is the amount of hard drives/their size that I have (I have currently 3 exceeding a combined 160 Gigs capacity) that causes the OS to go nuts (or at least some applications).I seem to recall that the Q40 had limit to the size of the partitions available for SMSQ but that may have been fixed. As David McCann pointed out the limit was 256mb but I suspect this has now been addressed. Nonetheless you are, of course, running this on an ISA slot controller which possibly has firmware which is not designed to handle large drives. Doubt this would fragment memory though.
The last version of SMSQ/E which was 'approved' for the Q40 / Q60 by its builders was, I believe, patched to remove problems with the caches. Again, I am out of the loop with this now and the Q40 is rarely switched on so I am not sure but I ran it all day today on v 3.07 and saw no fragmentation on my sysmon.
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Would this be to go with the Aurora and SGC that you asked me to hold onto for you which you then did not reply to my email about asking if you wanted it?My other piece of redundant hardware is my MinisQL since that is really pretty slow in comparison to the other stuff but I thought I would drag it out and install QDT on it as a test. It installed perfectly and adapted itself to the smaller screen with no problems (thought you would like to know that Jim).
Well I wouldn't call my Aurora setup redundant (or slow) for that matter myself but that's strictly a personal opinion. (However if it is redundant I'll be glad to relieve you of it ;-) -for free of course- :-P )
It is only redundant in the sense of not being used in everyday situations. Marcel found it very useful in the development of the colour Aurora Drivers and I find it useful for odd tasks like disk copying and testing software (and SMSQ/E) Mind you, if anyone wants a full MinisQL I can oblige.
The Aurora SMSQ/e (current version 3.03 with colour drivers) actually has no problems and the colour drivers are to say the least excellent! And to me at least they are quite fast :-) And for you infidels out there proof of that is only 1 purchase away ;-) (buy QWord for the Aurora and you will see that it is quite fast). BTW: Auroras with Minerva MKII installed as per Simon's (Goodwin) confirmation CAN play Digital Audio at 10KHz mono (which is quite good actually)... so all Aurora users out there better start buying stuff from TF Services (Tony may I remind you that you will need to add a couple of zeroes to that cheque ;-) hehehe)OF course once you have the colour drivers installed to play QWord you cannot use the Minerva can you?
BTW the Aurora Colour driver is just a module grafted onto exactly the same core of SMSQ/E as is used in all the other versions (so Marcel recently informed me when we were discussing how to detect the different versions for the SGC - Hi and Lo Colour.). So, if the O/S is at fault so it should fragment on all systems.
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