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From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Can you help?
Summary: Out of memory
Message-ID: <10764@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 17:41:16 GMT
References: <7829@cc.nu.oz> <7830@cc.nu.oz>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <7830@cc.nu.oz>, v8803330@cc.nu.oz writes:
> 
>  My brother has a CoCo III with 128K anda single drive and is having problems 
>  getting various software to interact with other software. For example, he loads
>  MULTIVIEW and when he tries to do a COPY from one disk to another he gets a 
>  "can't fork" error.

Most likely he's out of memory.  Multi-Vue takes up quite a bit itself,
and opens up at least one graphics window (much more expensive in
memory usage than text windows).  Probably there just isn't another
8K block of RAM for forking off the Copy process.

Most Coco-nuts say that Multi-Vue is useless without 512K.
Actually you can now get a 256K upgrade (that uses the 128K chips already
in the Coco III) from Burke & Burke (see Rainbow ads), which is cheaper
than a full 512K upgrade.

I don't believe in Multi_vue myself, but most worthwhile OS9-L2
applications need more than 128K.  Your brother should put memory
expansion at the top of his shopping list.
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen  knudsen@ihlpl.att.com
  Round and round the while() loop goes;
  "Whether it stops," Turing says, "no one knows!"