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From: ravi@xanadu.com (Ravi Pandya)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Over 16 Meg
Keywords: win3 16mb qemm himem
Message-ID: <1991May30.000945.12529@xanadu.com>
Date: 30 May 91 00:09:45 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Operating Company
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Has anyone had any success at all trying to get Windows 3.0 Enhanced
Mode to recognize the existence of over 16 Mb of RAM? I have 32 Mb of
RAM, and a couple of applications that can make good use of it, and
this limitation is infuriating. I have spent several days trying
various combinations and options of HIMEM, QEMM, EMM386, etc. to try
and get anything useful out of it, and have been spectacularly
unsuccessful. The "documentation" and "error messages" that Windows
provides have not been any help at all. Nor has Microsoft Online, a
very expensive and not particularly useful service. (And Microsoft has
the gall to raise the price to $2500 a year!!!)

Why on earth is this limitation there in the first place? I can
understand the reason in 286 mode, but in 386 enhanced mode it is
unexcusable. Is it the same kind of short-sighted laziness that led to
the original DOS 640k limit? 16 Mb is only an order of magnitude
beyond a reasonable current configuration, which means a lot of people
will be bumping their noses on it fairly soon. Is Windows 3.1 / 4.0
going to be any better? What about OS/2 2.0?
	--ravi

	Ravi Pandya
	Xanadu Operating Company
	550 California Avenue
	Suite 101
	Palo Alto, CA 94306
	415 856 4112 ext 122
	415 856 2251 fax
	ravi@xanadu.com