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From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows/386 - Problem with Excel and other problems
Message-ID: <14794@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 88 16:02:12 GMT
References: <5047@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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In article <5047@thorin.cs.unc.edu> howell@thorin.cs.unc.edu (William Howell) writes:

>
>1) Excel consumes 206 KB of conventional memory on a PS/2 with
>   Windows/386 and 6mb of memory.  This translates to that you
>   can't run Microsoft Word and say a terminal session at the 
>   same time.

I used to use Windows/386 extensively, although now I mostly use OS/2.
Are you sure you're interpreting your memory usage correctly?  I've had
at least two copies of Word, one copy of QMODEM, a copy of Paradox, and
Excel running at the same time on an AT with 4.5 Meg.  I've never really
understood how Windows/386 allocates memory, but it does seem odd -- I
believe I loaded Excel last, which may be the key to the problem.

The biggest problems I've had with Windows/386 were file based e.g. Word
and Paradox clobbering each others files.  Also, when the system is close
the memory limits, the chances of a protection violation seem to increase
substatially.

Bradley Dyck Kliewer