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From: mats@infolog.se (Mats Lordin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Bad memory caching ? (Win 3.0 memory requirements)
Message-ID: <242@infolog.se>
Date: 16 Oct 90 09:12:59 GMT
References: <5573@mhres.mh.nl>
Organization: Infologics, Sollentuna, Sweden
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In article <5573@mhres.mh.nl> hst@mh_co2.mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra) writes:
>I have a 386sx noname clone with 1 Meg RAM.
>I installed Windows 3 in 386 enhanced mode.
>It reeeeeeaaaaaaaal slooooooooooow.
>I only have 200K memory free when I start a Dos shell (windowed)
>When I installed Windows 3 on a 386 (20 Mhz) with 2 Meg Ram it performed
>acceptable.

According to the windows manual windows runs in 386 enhanced mode only if your
system is an -386 (or higher) with at least 2MB of memory (640K of conventional
and 1024K of extended). You could check the mode of which your windows is running
by choosing Help - About Program Manager from the Program Manager window.

However you could force windows to enter -386 enhanced mode with the /3 switch if 
your system is configured with less memory, but as you already noticed the system
will run reeeeeaaaaaallll sloooooooow.... Personaly I would recommend you to have
at least 4 MB to run applications in enhanced mode but I'm sorry I can't help
you with the technical aspect of the problem on how and why this is the case.

All thoughts are my own.

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