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Re: WinOS2 and the MACH64

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From: jock
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 09:21
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In <3hok8s$cb3@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, Mark Krischer <mkrisch@mpce.mq.edu.au> writes:
>Mark Krischer <mkrisch@mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> thanks to everybody's suggestions.
>> 	osborne technical support said i should exclude memory
>> 	regions a000-cfff, i'll be trying that tonight.  it sounds
>> 	like the best solution i've heard so far. so, for those that
>> 	have a similar problem, you might give this a try.
>> 
>> thanks again
>> 
>> mark
>
>just a follow-up, excluding the above memory regions didn't help.  it
>appears that 1meg mach64 cards are not supported.  looks like i get
>to spring for an extra meg.  i'll try and get ibm to confirm this, but
>if you've got a 1meg mach64 card and can't run windows, this might be
>the problem.

In an earlier post I explained how I had got the MACH64 and Win-OS/2 to 
work.  I have 1 Mb of video memory.  It works - although the resolution you 
were trying to get is not available with only 1 Mb.

Rgds,
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From: jock@deakin.edu.au
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Subject: Re: WinOS2 and the MACH64
Date: 14 Feb 1995 09:21:22 GMT
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