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From: howell@bashful.cs.unc.edu (William Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows/386 - Problem with Excel and other problems
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Date: 7 Nov 88 23:06:57 GMT
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In article <14794@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) writes:
>
>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.
>
This problem has grown even more confusing as we have two PS/2 mod 80
machines, each with DOS 3.3, Windows/386 2.03, and Excel.  Each machine
has its own set of software, but the same version of everything.  On one
machine loading Excel consumes 206 KB of conventional memory and you 
can't do much else, while on the other it consumes a token amount of
conventional memory and you can load and run all types of applications.
Anyone from Microsoft read this newsgroup, and might want to venture a
guess?

And while I am on differences between the two, one system can run the
terminal desktop accessory in small print size and the other cannot,
the size remains virtually the same large size.  Yet another strange
Windows occurance between two identical machines!