[SOC] "alternate" browsers, e-mail, etc....

Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:00:26 -0500

MEM /C /P will give you the breakdown on what is loaded where.
Sounds like there is not enough drivers & other stuff loaded high.

At 3/9/02 07:39 AM -0600, Dan W. Dooley wrote:
>Rob, it sounds like you don't have enough conventional memory.
>
>"WHAT, YOU SAY!!!!  I'VE GOT 32 MEGS!!! (or whatever you have)  How could I
>be out of memory?"
>
>DOS apps can only access the lower 640 KB of that memory, and if you have
>several DOS apps going at the same time, well, start with 640 and start
>subtracting.....
>
>So what's taking your memory?  Lots of little things you wouldn't expect.
>Try this.  At the command prompt, type "MEM" <return>.  That will list the
>breakdown of memory usage.
>
>This one I've got to do from memory <no pun here>, but I think it's "MEM
>MODE | MORE".  Try typing that one in.  Without the "" of course and case
>doesn't matter.  It should list memory usage by device.  It will tell you
>what's eating up low memory.  Loading devices high (into high memory) will
>help.  I won't try to get into all the nasty little details here.  For one
>thing, I've forgotten much of them and if you have or can get a book
>covering DOS, it should explain more.
>
>
>Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA  Bedford, Texas
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>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob Matherly" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [SOC] "alternate" browsers, e-mail, etc....
>
>
> > Boy, how SOC of me :^)
> >
> > You're a computer geek, maybe you can help me figure this out... every
>time
> > I try to run Arachne, I get a memory error.  It says "ran out of
> > conventional (low) memory".  It then says something like "8670 bytes
> > missing" (number changes).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
>
>
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