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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Windows Question......
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.160534.788@holos0.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 90 16:05:34 GMT
References: <5485@cuphub.cup.edu>
Reply-To: lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed)
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <5485@cuphub.cup.edu> pre2306@cuphub.cup.edu writes:

=	I've been pondering upgrading! I have my eye on a 12.5 mhz AT/286.
=I'm going to be running DOS 4.01 with Windows. Now, I've heard that DOS 
=cannot use memory beyond 640K, but does that mean that since Windows works
=as a DOS overlay that it also cannot use this extra memory?

If you're going to be running windows on a new machine, you should buy
a 386 SX and run Windows 386.  That product uses the virtual 8086 mechanisms
on the processor, allowing for a far better implementation.

Various athorities, e.g., PC Magazine, claim that no one should buy anything
less than a 386 SX.  Well, I'm not sure I believe that for the penny
pinching low-end DOS user.  But if you're basing your system on Windows,
your really painting yourself into a corner with a 286.
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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