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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WINDOWS/DESQVIEW
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Date: 4 Sep 89 23:16:50 GMT
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In article <89083106371645@masnet.uucp>, mark.crozet@canremote.uucp (MARK CROZET) writes:
> Would somebody recommend a solution to me.  I have a 286 12 mhz
> with 1 MB RAM and a 512 k Intel memory expansion board.  I also
> have a 512 k AST VGA plus card and NEC Multisync II monitor. I am
> using Windows 286 and have my memory setup as follows (I think!
> Is there any way I can check?) 640 k conventional, 384 k
> Ramdrive, 512 k Expanded memory.  However I still get out of
> memory messages in Windows when I try some things!
>
It depends on what sort of applications you want to run. Windows is best when
you stick to mostly Windows applications. Desqview will run anything.

I would suggest that you run SMARTDRV ( a disk cache) instead of RAMDRIVE, which
I assume you're running in extended (not expanded) memory.

Windows will still run out of memory (particularly on a 286) because it muse use
mostly conventional memory for each application.
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