In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) writes:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
>> More interesting stuff.
>>
>> I logged onto Ocean to find more stuff in my mailbox.  After 2 crashes
>> with mail under Ocean, I figured the safe thing was to SET HOST MIAVX1
>> and read my mail.  Well, I forgot that I did that, and proceeded on
>> as usual.
>>
>> The point is that it took me a while to realize it.  MIAVX1 actually
>> runs faster that way (there are enough people logged on).  Is this
>> an unexpected feature?
>
> Hummm....at the risk of causing increased network traffice...this might
> actually be.  When doing a SET HOST, the system uses one of the DECnet
> protocols.  This is slightly more efficient than using TCP/IP.  I doubt,
> though that you will see a significant increase in speed when doing this.
>
 
Well, I've tried it since and now believe it was a coincidence :(  I must
have just hit a slow time window or something.
 
John
--
Drivel of the year:
"...DOS is utterly unable to handle more than 1MB of memory.  Removing
this limitation from DOS would result in something that just _isn't_
DOS any more--it wouldn't run existing DOS programs." -PC Mag, Nov 23,
1993.
---> OS/2? - what DOS could have been and would like to be.