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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: BP 7.0 bug??????
- Message-ID: <dmurdoch.329.727667423@mast.queensu.ca>
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- Organization: Queen's University
- References: <35168@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:50:24 GMT
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- In article <35168@adm.brl.mil> lee@cpu.us.dynix.com (Lee Crites) writes:
-
- >I am getting this message a LOT with BP7. Is there a bug here? I have
- >4meg of RAM, and set up my computer so that the only TSR's kicking around
- >are the mouse driver and SSTOR (SuperStore disk compression utility). I
- >ought to have loads of room, but can't seem to get at it. I can't even
- >get most of the TV demos to run from within the IDE (^F9) without running
- >out of memory. I played with this some last night, but didn't make any
- >headway. I ran the utility that cam with BP7 to test the EMS, and it
- >worked fine. I also have the IDE set up to use EMS (something I had to do
- >quite early just to get some of my other programs to compile).
-
- It sounds as though you're using TURBO, not BP, since BP can't use EMS.
- TURBO has the same limitations as it did in 6.0 - only edit buffers go into
- EMS, all the rest has to fit in low RAM. If you want to make good use of
- all of your memory, you have to use the protected mode IDE instead.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
-