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From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 640K "too little memory" WordStar error
Message-ID: <144@kepler.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 01:57:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: kepler.144
Posted: Mon Aug  5 01:57:21 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 12:25:42 EDT
References: <650@hou2e.UUCP> <118@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (mojo)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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In article <118@novavax.UUCP> john@novavax.UUCP (John Paul O'Brien) writes:
>I have heard from a few people who have had problems with 
>software on PC's when the amount of available memory is > 512k.
>Just set you switches for 512k and see if 512k is all that DOS will recognize.
>If it recognizes more, then you will have to remove some chips.

This should never be necessary to satisfy WINSTALL or RINSTALL or any of the
other MicroPro install programs.  If you don't have access to the patch
(posted earlier on the net and available on CompuServe MicroPro Forum) then
loading anything into memory that uses up 128K will work as well: RAM disk,
big drivers, DEBUG, Sidekick ...

In times of emergency -- I found myself with an old install and no patch
nearby -- I've run the program under DEBUG and jimmied the "memory available"
byte so it thinks there's 512K or less available.

The problem has long since disappeared from our shipped product.  But when
the products were created, of course, machines with more than 512K were just
as rare around MicroPro as they were in the rest of the world.
-- 
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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