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Did this happen with DragonDictate too? If so, which version?
I'm going to experiment anyway, the alternative is to connect to the dual processor machine with pcAnywhere and build my software there, so at least I have another option. I've already said I will NOT give up my pc until I am totally convinced that the new one works right.
Thanks,
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Anderson [SMTP:yduj@@harlequin.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 12:11 PM
To: Jeff DelPapa; jamie@@decisionism.com; voice-users@voicerecognition.com
Subject: dual processors
Jeff Del Papa asked me if I'd like to comment on Jamie's message to
voice-users about my experience with a dual processor machine and
NaturallySpeaking. Three words: Don't do it. Here's a message I
sent to Dragon after they told me to increase my swap space when I
first reported crashes. (Lame. Sigh.)
From: Judy Anderson <yduj@@harlequin.com>
To: "Support"<Support@@dragonsys.com>
Cc: yduj@@harlequin.com
Subject: Re: NaturallySpeaking 2.0 crashing the computer.
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 98 12:34:09 EST
I have conclusively verified that the problem is a dual processor PC.
I turned my PC into a single processor machine, without making any
other configuration changes whatsoever, by using the /NUMPROC=1 switch
in the boot.in file.
I have a Sound Blaster AWE 64 value card in my machine. I have 256
meg of RAM, more disk space than I can count (the disk has eight gig;
I am using less than a quarter of it), and it is a Pentium 266 dual
processor made by Dell. I am running NT 4.0 service pack 3. If I
allow it to run with both processors, then it crashes after
NaturallySpeaking has been running for some short period of time
(10-20 lines of dictated text), while I have managed to dictate
several pages without any crashing since I have been running with only
one processor.
I had an earlier call during installation with Derek Jones in which
the fact that I have a two processor machine was relevant. He
suggested that you guys might be going to be doing some hardware
qualifications using two processor machines; I suggest this strongly
as my problem was very obviously caused by the two processor
configuration. I made, I repeat, absolutely no other changes
whatsoever than to castrate it into a one processor machine at boot
time.
Please do not reply to this message suggesting that I reboot, change
swap size, add more memory, or any other irrelevant suggestion.
My serial number is NSPE202021479. (I am not including the 600 lines
of your original response; we don't need to fill up our various disks
with more copies of my dragon.log file.)
Judy Anderson "yduJ"
yduJ@@harlequin.com
617-374-2547
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