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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running non-windows applications in windows 3.0
Keywords: non-windows, dos, Insufficient memory
Message-ID: <2030@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 17:01:36 GMT
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In article <4319@buff3.UUCP> krotz@motcid.UUCP (Scott A. Krotz) writes:
>
>start application" error.  What gives?  I am using the program
>manager "About program manager" option to give me how much memory
>is left... is this the true amount of memory left? Why can't I

I don't know where that figure comes from in the free memory field... but
it is *DEFINITELY* NOT referring to REAL memory...  On my 386/25 with 
8MB, Windows reports that I have over 11MB free!!  :-)   Maybe Windows 3.0
is better than I thought :-)



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