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Windows 95, Direct X 8
Windows 2000, unknown Direct X
XFree 86

If there's any more information I can provide, please don't
hesitate to ask.

Best Regards and TIA,

Joonas Pihlaja

Below is a quote from his bug report.  The program pShell he
mentions is an old DOS program that's intended as a front-end to
pMARS.  AFAIK it uses the system() call to execute pMARS and
doesn't do any processing in between.

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> I observed the following things:

> I'm still running the pmarsw version with John
> Metcalf's optimizing program (written in gwbasic) and
> with pShell/mts for benchmarking.
> In both cases everything works as expected if the
> pmarsw window is on top. If I open another window (it
> doesn't matter what it is) the speed of pmarsw will go
> down by a factor of about 5-10. On the other hand also
> the other programms slowing a bit down.
> The most drastical effect I have if I let run the
> optimizer and the pShell at the same time. If pShell
> is on top every key action of pShell is delayed by 1-2
> seconds. It doesn't matter how the windows are
> arranged, but I will check this after work again.

> As long as pmarsw is that one which is 'highlighted'
> everything is fine. The slowing down comes at the
> point if I click on another window. It doesn't matter
> what kind of application it is. I'll check that with
> window behind, minimized etc. after work.

> > - Does it matter what application you start in
> > addition to
> > pmarsw?

> No, it doesn't matter what kind of application is
> opened.