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Re: Photoshop and Illustrator 5.5
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, John Hess wrote:
> At 01:51 PM 3/6/96, WILLIAM J. MILLER wrote:
> >Well, last night, I was playing with PhotoShop 3.0.x for the Mac. It
> >loaded fine, until it got to the point where it did memory checks. I
> >gave E/DOS about 9 megs of ram to play with, with large syszone, and
> >large stack. Tried many many settings. It work, but when it started
> >looking at the "hard disk" as a scratch drive, it said the disk is bad
> >and died. This in itself really is not important. However, if it works
Photoshop uses a "scratch disk" to simulate ram that is completely apart
from any paging that the o/s does. Try making a volume that's 20M and
copying PhotoShop into that volume. Then running Photoshop should work.
Give it a try and let me know the results. I'd sure like to be able to
run Photoshop.
Regards,
Dave
dmh@cnct.com
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