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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White)
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Subject: Re: Excel 1.5 and "Fragmented Memory"?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 16:00:47 GMT
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In article <1208@dg.dg.com> colella@emav51.webo.dg.com (Wayne Colella) writes:
>I've had the exact same problem numerous times - I've got 8Mb of memory
>and no other applications running, but Excel can't seem to find a
>contiguous chunk to run in.  It only needs 200-400K, I believe.  Anyway,
>rebooting the system will get around the problem (obviously), but I,
>too, would love to find out a better solution if anyone has one...

  I believe the problem was that Excel 1.x versions could only use a maximum
of 1 Mbyte of memory (regardless of how much ram you have), and moreover, on
systems with >1 Meg, Excel had to load into the first Mbyte of ram.  I think
Microsoft recommended that Excel be the first program run (in a MF environment)
so that it could grab that memory.  The fix is to upgrade to version 2.2.  
  

						Jeff White
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu