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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PCs Limited (Dell) 286's & Lotus 3.0
Message-ID: <[250fb546:5506.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 15:00:03 GMT
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>Item 5506 (0 resps) by wek at point.UUCP on Wed 13 Sep 89 22:02
>[Bill Kuykendall]    Subject: PCs Limited (Dell) 286's & Lotus 3.0

>We recently tried to install Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.0 on a 2.5 year old PCs
>Limited 286 (the 8mz model with smartview).  No combination of memory
>configuration switches for the base 1 MB could be made to work.  We added an

You may have a VERY big problem.

If 1-2-3 Release 3 wants to see extended memory, and your processor can't
hack it (or your BIOS doesn't know how to deal with it right) then you are
screwed.  If it's looking for EXPANDED memory then you should be ok -- but
from what I understand R3 wants Extended -- not expanded.

Try changing the BIOS for a Phoenix of recent origin.  That _may_ work.  If
it doesn't then you have other problems, such as a processor that is at
least a little buggy.

I'm not sure if 1-2-3 is using the "go to protected mode/reset" scheme to
get to the extended memory, or the "loadall" trick.  Both are somewhat
dangerous in that they rely on items that are not guaranteed to work. 
"Loadall" isn't even supposed to be in a '386, so I would bet on the "go to
protected mode/reset" game, or else Lotus got smart and uses '386 protected
mode if it senses the 386 processor.

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