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From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running non-windows applications in windows 3.0
Keywords: non-windows, dos, Insufficient memory
Message-ID: <7088@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 13:49:25 GMT
References: <4319@buff3.UUCP> <2030@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <2030@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
>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 :-)

I am sorry, but I have to do this. So many people have already discussed
this for months now and it is mentioned in all the literature.

RTFM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Windows 3.0 provides virtual memory on 386 and 486 machines.



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