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    27-May-92 10:05:11
Sb: #23713-BBS
Fm: Don Nafis 70656,133
To: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
Christopher, I've kept Viva! Amiga! running for almost 6 years with BBS-PC! and am reluctant to change unless I can take a big step forward. Do you have any details on Proteus or know where I can get them? I'd sure like to see a features list, perhaps an installation and maintenance demo module and, of course, info on how to reach its creaters. I come from the mainframe world where I have been used to refering to it as "overlapped I/O" for 25 years. Overlapping I/O with processing or other I/O is one of the things multi-tasking is all about. It provides maximum throuput for all data entering or leaving a computer. I kinda took it for granted that Amiga programs would use overlapping techniques only to be disappointed. One of the biggest disappointments is Whap! which brings the serial port to a dead stop while it writes data to a disk file, even worse, to SLOWLY fill in a wedge in the file download pie chart!! – Don – via Whap!