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From: neilh@microsoft.UUCP (Neil HOOPMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Word for Win. low memory problems
Message-ID: <54009@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 19:32:07 GMT
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In art <69220001@hpl-opus.HP.COM> knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts) writes:
>I am getting low memory errors if I have 3 or 4 windows open. The thing is,
>I have 4 Meg of RAM. Certainly the windows couldn't need this much. I tried
>making all the memory extended, which is what I think the program wants, but
>I still get the error. Does anyone know what the problem is?

You want to make sure that you are using a some type of memory manager
that provides LIM 4.0.  Depending on the type of computer
you have, it may have come with it.  There are also products like
386MAX that will do this for you.  If you are purchasing Windows,
Windows/386 will provide this.

You can tell if Word is using your expanded memory in the Help/About
dialog.  If you do not currently have a memory manager installed,
WinWord is running in the base 640K.  Installing a manager will give 
you quite a performance improvement.

Hope that helps,
--Neil

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