Re: [NTLK] NCU ON WINDOWS XP

From: Trent Tuggle (Tuggle_at_Acusoft.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 10:35:19 EDT


I would imagine that is because the client OS under vmware will perform
its idle loop slower. My own connection runs fine if I slow down my
computer with some additional work (do a compile or something) during
Newton transfers. VMware might be a good mechanism to use to get a
slower computer!

-Trent

Andre Beckedorf wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I've installed NCU on Windows XP yesterday and tried uploading a package to
>the Newton. The connection was very unstable, so I tried it with Windows
>2000 running in a VMware Box. It's rockstable there! I had no problem
>backing up my whole Newton.
>So, if anybody had the same problem with NCU, why not give VMware a try? It
>seems, that their pass-through-emulation of the COM Ports is excellent and
>timing is good.
>
>
>

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