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- From: goss@CS.ColoState.EDU (Mike Goss)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: MathCAD 3.1 under Win-OS2
- Message-ID: <Sep06.221752.23111@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 22:17:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep06.122737.7362@stratsft.uucp>
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University
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- In article <1992Sep06.122737.7362@stratsft.uucp> dwayne@stratsft.uucp (Dwayne Bailey) writes:
- >Has anyone gotten MathCAD v 3.1 to run under OS/2 2.0? The README file
- >for OS/2 mentions MathCAD 3.0, and their hint works to get the thing
- >installed. Running it is another matter.
- ...
- >Anyone know what magic incantations I need to use to get this thing to
- >run? In case it matters, I'm running on a PS/2 Mod 80 with 12Meg memory
- >and a 70Meg ESDI hard disk.
-
- E-mail bounced, so: The magic incantation is to set the DPMI memory
- limit to 50MB (in the Win-OS2 settings for MathCAD), and set
- attributes to have MathCad run in it's own WIN-OS2 session (so that it
- doesn't try to load into an existing session with DPMI < 50MB).
- --
- Mike Goss
- E-mail: goss@CS.ColoState.EDU | Hardcopy: Computer Science Department
- Phone: (303)491-7873 | Colorado State University
- Fax: (303)491-6639 | Fort Collins, CO 80523
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