Re: BinkD   
     By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Sun Sep 25 2016 12:20:44   
      
    RN>>> Thanks. Mine is an Intel dual-core processor. Joe's may be    
    RN>>> quad-core, but I don't think that would make a difference. He'll    
    RN>>> still have to shut down all but one.   
      
    JD>>> Seems that the BBS computer is a single core.  AM2+ or AM3.  Too   
    JD>>> long ago to remember  Device Manager tells me it's an AMD K8 Athlon   
    JD>>> 64 processor 3500+    
      
    JD>>> So, I guess shutting down any processors is out of the question    
      
    RN>> I don't know about the processors in all of the machines you have,   
    RN>> but I was referring to the later models you use.   
      
    JD>> Well, I could in THIS computer.   Just not on the BBS machine where   
    JD>> Binkd runs    
      
    RN> If BinkD runs only on your BBS machine and that machine has a single   
    RN> processor,    
    RN> meaning not dual- or quad-core, then something else is wrong on both our   
    RN> systems. For the time being, we  could call it The Ghost in the   
    RN> Machine. That said, I made the change and have noticed no sleepiness on   
    RN> the part of D'Bridge or BinkD. Time marches on.   
      
      
   Yep.  It does not happen often, but it does happen   
   --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32   
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