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Jamie, I think you asked if I had dual boot system. I do not. As far as I'm concerned DragonDictate is working as good as a 16-bit application can be expected to work in the Windows
NT 4.0 environment. I actually, reboot only once a week. I do however have to restart DragonDictate once or twice a day, depending on how my patience level is doing. I stopped
using Pegasus Mail because of what I believe is the memory leak that affects DragonDictate. Netscape mail, or Outlook Express work fine. Since I cannot get around using RapidSQL, I
try to use it as little possible. Always rebooting after its use.
My plan from here on out is to enhance my macros for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Thanks once again for all the positive input.
Todd
Jamie Ferguson wrote:
> I hadn't thought of this but it sounds quite reasonable. I don't use ANY other 16-bit programs besides DragonDictate, and I don't have this problem of stomped on memory under NT.
>
> Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Hawkins [SMTP:phawkins@@connact.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 1998 6:00 PM
> To: Todd E. Scheresky; jamie@@decisionism.com
> Cc: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com
> Subject: Re: DD 3 and NT
>
> Your description of your problems makes me wonder if Pegasus Mail, or
> some component of it, is 16-bit; similarly if some component of
> rapidSQL is also 16-bit. This sounds like programs stomping on each
> other's memory space. This might happen if they are all sharing a DOS
> process... as is apparently the case for 16-bit programs on NT.
>
> A fellow named Paul Baclace rode through on a dark horse a few
> days ago, and gave us some advice about 16-bit programs on NT, which I
> append at the bottom of this message. He didn't say exactly how to do
> it, try looking under Settings | System | Performance or something
> like that... I don't have NT, so I can't check.
>
> JF> -----Original Message-----
> JF> From: Todd E. Scheresky [SMTP:tscheresky@@micron.com]
> JF> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 6:19 PM
> JF> To: jenny.woods@@rl.ac.uk
> JF> Cc: jamie@@decisionism.com; dana@sybase.com
> JF> Subject: Re: DD 3 and NT
>
> [snip]
> TS> DragonDictate's performance starts out quick and responsive, but in less
> TS> than in one hour it's dragging. Worse yet since the application is a
> TS> 16-bit application its memory is not protected and gets stopped on by
> TS> other applications. For instance, if you use Pegasus Mail and simply
> TS> download your mail from a POP server it screws up the word history
> TS> commands. When you say "Oops", you can no longer say "Word 1", or
> TS> "Choose 3". RapidSQL has the same effect on DragonDictate. Your only
> TS> recourse is to restart DragonDictate, over, and over, and over again.
>
> >>>>> "PEB" == Paul E Baclace <peb@@baclace.net> writes:
>
> PEB> Regarding dragon dictate 3.x on NT4.0: because it still relies on
> PEB> 16 bit code (I thought 3.0 was supposed to be fully 32 bit), it
> PEB> is running under a DOS process on NT known as Windows on Windows
> PEB> ("WOW"). Starting with NT4.0, the default WOW behavior changed
> PEB> from "new DOS process each time" to "share single DOS process".
> PEB> This was probably changed merely to save overall memory
> PEB> consumption, but by sharing a single DOS process the effect of
> PEB> memory leaks is worsened. If there are leaks in DOS code, then
> PEB> changing your system to "new DOS process each time" should make
> PEB> it possible to completely recover memory usage by quitting the
> PEB> program involved. Under the default NT4.0 WOW behavior,
> PEB> rebooting is necessary to clear up DOS related problems (unless
> PEB> you kill the shared DOS process manually, which then kills all
> PEB> DOS processes).
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