Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PCs Limited (Dell) 286's & Lotus 3.0
Message-ID: <25107377.18260@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 15 Sep 89 03:58:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.25107377.18260
References: <[1919]comp.ibmpc@point.UUCP> <[250fb546:5506.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <[250fb546:5506.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>[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
>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.

   Yes indeed, 1-2-3 R3 will only run if you have at least 1M of extended
+ conventional memory, although once it's running, it will use expanded and/or
extended memory (although there may be some restrictions on what types of
data it will put into which sort of memory, just like there are in Symphony).

   I only got to play around with R3 for about 15 minutes on someone else's
PC, and was unable to solve some problems he was having:

1.  On his EGA system, all screens were done in graphics mode.  This isn't
   that much of a problem (except that it's slower), except that the character
   set it was using was pretty lousy - it looked only marginally better than
   CGA characters.

2.  We were unable to re-run the Install program to change the installation
   options.  Running it from the hard disk resulted in Install informing us
   that it had to be run from the floppy, and running it from the floppy
   (an exact duplicate of the original, I believe) resulted in some other
   error which I can't remember.

   Any comments on these problems are welcome and I'll pass them along to my
friend - please e-mail, though, and I'll mail summaries of any responses I
get to anyone who requests a summary.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                              cs4g6ag@maccs.McMaster.CA
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