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Another one with over 512MB RAM...
Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 2:52 am
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Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted)


It really is very pointless putting that much RAM in a Windows 9x machine as it finds 
it difficult to address it. Unless the machine is a busy file server, it's not really 
going to ever be able to use it either.




On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:03 am, David Jones wrote: >I have a question about How >to Exit to DOS:

> > >I am running windows 98 on an HP computer with 800MHZ procecessor and with 768 Megs >of RAM. When I attempt to click on MS-DOS Prompt I get an message telling me that >I do not have enough memory to run this program. This does not seem to be logical >at all as I have at least 600Megs of Ram available. >I am beginning to wander if some small file that is needed for dos to access the >memory has been accidently deleted or something. Any help and/or suggestions as to >what I might try would be gratefully appreciated. Oh and I can get to the dos prompt >by rebooting in Dos Mode. > >Thanks, >David Jones




Written in response to:
Question about 'How to Exit to DOS' (David Jones: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:03 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Another one with over 512MB RAM... (Silvia: Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 6:27 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'How to Exit to DOS' (David Jones: Wed, May 15, 2002, 11:03 am)
*re: Question about 'How to Exit to DOS' (Bobstur: Wed, May 15, 2002, 12:02 pm)
*re: Question about 'How to Exit to DOS' (Deke: Wed, May 15, 2002, 12:06 pm)
-Another one with over 512MB RAM... (Michael: Thu, May 16, 2002, 2:52 am)
-re: Another one with over 512MB RAM... (Silvia: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 6:27 pm)
*re: Another one with over 512MB RAM... (aaaaaaa: Wed, Aug 27, 2003, 11:07 am)
*re: Question about 'How to Exit to DOS' (JaredTeeter: Sun, Dec 14, 2008, 7:10 pm)
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