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From: maurice@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Dale Ross Maurice)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows/386
Keywords: Windows crashes...
Message-ID: <6636@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 88 18:25:56 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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  Ok now that we have this new newsgroup about MS windows I'd like to ask
a question of the knowledgeable.  The people at Microsoft did not satisfy
me with an appropriate answer.
  Concerning windows/386:  Just how much memory do you need to have to run
non windows applications in a window?  I have two meg of memory and I can
run as many windows applications as I like.  Whenever I try to run a non
windows application windows crashes the the following error:

     Fatal Exit code 0x0404

This happens so quickly I'm not competely sure that this is what it displays
because it resets the screen before it can be read easily.

  The person I talked to at Microsoft said that I couldn't run any non
windows applications with two megs.  I was under the assumption that windows
would page.  I can't get it to work.  I'm ready to pack it up and ship it
back.
  If it is indeed memory that I need I still think it's just a little 
silly of windows not to check and see if I have enough memory before trying
an operation.  Even I do more checking in programs I'm just testing.

   Thanks for the help,
	Dale Maurice

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