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boggs@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Adam Boggs) writes:

>Has anybody else had problems with Turbo C++ 3.0 with the Dos Protected Mode
>Interface (DPMI) on their computers?  When I try to run the IDE (TC.EXE), it
>says that it can't find my computer configureation for DPMI in it's database
>and to run dpmiinst.exe to configure for my computer.

>So, I run dpmiinst, and it goes for a while, then at the top of my screen it
>says something to the effect of "RAM PARITY ERROR: CHECKING MEMORY SEGMENT",
>and then "OFFENDING SEGMENT: 0000".  Now, I've never gotten a parity error
>since I've had the computer.  Another interesting thing is that a friend of mine
>who has the same system (basically) that I do got the same message.  We both
>have a CompuAdd 286/12 w/ 1 meg ram.  I'm wondering whether it's the brand
>of computer, the cpu, or really a RAM error.   Has anyone else experienced this
>problem with TC++ 3.0?

I do not know how it is with TC++ 3.0 , I'm using BC++ 3.0 and that
one refuses to run when I have less than 1 Mb of extended ram free.
This means it simply won't run on your computer. Perhaps the same
problem occurs here.

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