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From: nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (nathan engle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: AT&T DOS with Novell
Message-ID: <1991May8.151150.678@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 15:11:50 GMT
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In article <1991May8.135139.3350@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) writes:
>I would like to connect an ancient (I'm talking vacuum tubes) AT&T PC-class
>machine to a Novell 2.15C network.  IPX.COM loads fine.  When I try to 
>load NET3.COM, I un-failingly get a "memory allocation error".

  I never saw any vacuum tubes in Ollivetti-manufactured AT&T 6300
PCs, however as a software developer I came across several weird bugs
that only seemed to be resolved by upgrading the BIOS ROM's. I think we
eventually settled on version 1.43 as the best for 6300's. If your PC
has an older BIOS than 1.43 then you should give your AT&T reps a call.
  (Remember, in the 6300 the motherboard was upside down so to find the
BIOS you have to take off the bottom cover, not the top.)

>The PC seems fine otherwise, and although it is in daily use, no one has
>reported any memory errors.  It is running AT&T's version of MS-DOS 3.2.
>
>Does anyone know of any incompatibilities between AT&T DOS 3.2 and Novell??

  We never had any problems with the DOS as long as the BIOS it was
sitting on top of was updated.

>Thanks for you help.

  Don't thank me yet. Wait till you've trashed all your old 6300s and
then you can thank me.

>	-Phil Tracy	tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

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Nathan Engle             Software Juggler
Indiana University       Dept of Psychology
nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu