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- From: hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong)
- Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 req. for Falcon 3.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.053330.22753@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan3.010256.27903@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:33:30 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan3.010256.27903@serval.net.wsu.edu>, by chubbard@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Charles William Hubbard):
- >>Does anyone know the reason DOS 5.0 is required for Falcon 3.0? I am currently
- >>running DR DOS 5.0 (released parallel to MS DOS 4.0) and am curious if the
- >>program would run on my OS. I am assuming that there are minimum memory
- >>requirements that MS DOS 5.0 provides. DR DOS 5.0 provided greater memory
- >>availability than MS DOS 4.0 if I am recalling correctly. Has anyone been
- >>successful in running Falcon 3.0 on a previous DOS version (excluding DR DOS
- >>6.0)?
- >
- > I know the reason they "require" DOS 5.0 is for memory reasons. As I
- > recall Falcon 3.0 needs 513k of free mem or something like that. I've
- > never tried Falcon under any other OS than DOS 5.0 so I can't say if it
- > would work ok under DRDOS or not. I do know that even under DOS 5.0 I've
- > got to dump most of my drivers to free up enough space for the sim to go!
- >
- > C.
- >
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