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- From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 is giving me the fits about Windows and DOS
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:47:52 GMT
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- hob@soda.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
-
- >I have had a recent problem where I try to run a DOS or Windows
- >programs under OS/2. It gives me out of memory errors (full-screen
- >or seamless), something about cannot start programs/possibly out of
- >memory.
-
- >I reinstalled OS/2, downloaded the lastest patches from hobbes.nmsu.edu,
- >the latest hpfs and kernel update. It was running fine for a
- >few hours before the error reappeared.
-
- >Any guesses? Perhaps a previously unknown bug about the kernel update?
-
- >I have a 386/40 8mb ram, silicon integrated systems chipset, and ami bios,
- >dated 7/91.
-
- >Thanks for any pointers.
-
- I got those same error messages when I used the DEVICE=COM.SYS parameters in
- the CONFIG.SYS (the COM#,address,IRQ stuff). I know this doesn't solve your
- problem, I am just saying this is one thing that can cause that problem.
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