CONTACTS 
0201 - Trio Company                         716 614 1450
020101 - Mr. Gordon Jackson
020102 - gjackson@triousa.com

SUBJECTS
Performance Slower for SDS Reports than C11
Delayed Screen in SDS, 920725
Help for Slow Performance under W2K, Gordon Jackson
Work M May Improve Slow Performance under W2K, Gordon Jackson
SDS Reports Slow under Windows 3.1
Supersort, Selecting
Macro 120 Process Report Spec
061122 Selection Command File, Configure
Subject, 06112

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1312 - Summary/Objective
1313 -
131301 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0000, ref SDS 44 0000.
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1316 - Progress
1317 -
131701 - Talked to receptionist.  Gordon has another call.  She will ask him
131702 - to call back.
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1320 - 1015 called Gordon back
1321 -
132101 - Left another message.  He is out on calls with customers.
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1324 - 1205 Gordon called back
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132501 - He got the email linked to the record on 010212. ref SDS 45 Q65J
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132503 - Gordon has not thought of any new ideas.  He feels that since
132504 - Supersort has not changed in 20 years, there must have been a change
132505 - in Windows 2000 that reduces performance on a high-end system.
132506 -
132507 - We considered trying to run SDS under the old command.com, and using
132508 - original configuration for diskcaching, which used smartdrv.exe
132509 -
132510 - Did this based on....
132511 -
132512 -   On 920115 example of using smartdrv.sys. ref SDS 2 XD9O
132513 -
132514 -   On 920722 loading mouse driver high. ref SDS 3 0001
132515 -
132516 -       Looks useful for smartdrv also. ref SDS 3 L3W2
132517 -
132518 -       need to load emm386 in order to load stuff high. ref SDS 3 FL9L
132519 -
132520 -   On 920725 using smartdrv. ref SDS 4 CI5M
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132522 -   On 940607 solving SDS reports failing. ref SDS 8 0003
132523 -
132524 -   On 950507 more on smartdrv. ref SDS 9 0001
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132526 -  ..
132527 - None of this worked.
132528 -
132529 - Created an alternate DOS window based on command.com, instead of
132530 - cmd.exe.  This provided the additional configuration tabs for a pif
132531 - manager, but they were not terribly helpful.
132532 -
132533 - Created alternate config.sys and autoexec.bat configuration files.
132534 -
132535 -     [On 010301 converted to OTS. ref SDS 46 M45I
132536 -
132537 - Got a version of smartdrv.exe from an older version of w98.
132538 -
132539 - Got smartdrv.exe to load without an error, but there was no listing in
132540 - mem /c nor mem /p.
132541 -
132542 - Could not get the mouse to work.
132543 -
132544 -    Tried loading a mouse driver from prior years, but got message
132545 -    mouse was already loaded.
132546 -
132547 - Could not get the font to change, even when specifying a different
132548 - size.
132549 -
132550 - After all that, and configuring smartdrv, the supersort op still took
132551 - 13 seconds, 13 times longer than on a slower computer.
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132553 - So far, after two weeks, have not made an inch of progress getting a
132554 - 1.4GHz system to perform up to the standards of a 650 MHz system.
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132556 - Gordon feels the operating system vendor has some responsibility to
132557 - produce a consistend product.  There has to be a reason why the same
132558 - code goes 13 times slower on a machine that is twice as fast, where
132559 - all operation configurations are otherwise the same.
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