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From: abukarb@prism.cs.orst.edu (Bassam A. Abu-Karroum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows term
Keywords: 386, command.com
Message-ID: <16611@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 90 18:08:56 GMT
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In article <16602@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larsen@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Scott Larsen) writes:
>Well, I took the advice of many a person and tried to run command.com
>in a window.  It proptly came back and said "386 system not correctly
>installed."  I then tried to run any other dos program and got the same
>thing.

This message means that you started Windows/386 in a way that would not allow
you to load DOS applications. Make sure you start Windows by typing WIN386
not WIN86 (the latter misses the 3).

>I called microsoft and they said that the reason that it does this is that
>I need at least 2 Meg's worth of memory in order to get this thing to 
>work properly with my system.  ( I have an Inboard 386 )  They said the
>only thing that will work with windows for me is applications written
>specifically for windows.
>
The 2Mb requirments depends on what version of Windows/386 you have. Version
2.10 and earlier only need 1Mb. However, version 2.11 REQUIRES 2Mb and usually
Windows/386 will display a not enough memory message not the message you 
mentioned. I know there is a special version of Windows/386 for the Inboard,
not sure if this message "386 not ..." is related to the fact that you may need
that version to run instead of the standard Windows/386 version. Try calling
Microsoft to check about this. 

Hope this helps. 

Bassam