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Carroll,
I do not believe that DDE is the cause of the problem, unless you meant to
say that the communication between the server and TS is through some sort
of DDE implementation.
Most users of TS are not using their DDE link capabilities.
DDE is not obsolete, although you can get that notion from the Microsoft
press releases, as they have tried to focus their method of data sharing
first through OCX and now with ActiveX.
It is true that for many applications (word processing, graphics, etc),
DDE has been replaced by these new methods. But for our purposes in
trading (getting data from a server to another application that does not
directly access the server), DDE continues to be the best of all available
choices, and that is why DDE is now a standard in almost all the data
servers, both standalone and internet.
Neal
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> From: Carroll Slemaker <cslemaker1@xxxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Processor Usage
> Date: Sunday, February 01, 1998 4:23 PM
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> The only assertion I would disagree with is that this 100% CPU
> utilization by the Server is a recent problem - it isn't. I noticed
> this when I first switched to Windows NT, maybe two years or so ago, and
> complained to Omega at that time. It obviously relates to the form of
> IPC (inter-process communication) being used between the 16-bit Server
> and the charting module. It might be inherent in DDE (Dynamic Data
> Exchange, an obsolete protocol which Omega is using), or it may be just
> in how they've implemented their DDE interface. I have been told that
> the 32-bit Server will not have this problem.
>
> Carroll Slemaker
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