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At 03:34 PM 2/7/96 -0500, Terry Lewis wrote:
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>Has anyone had success with DOS cards in power macs?  I have a lab with
>Power Macs 6100/66.  Each has 16 meg of RAM.  I have 8 meg assigned to the
>DOS card and there is no additional memory on the card.   On the DOS side of
>it, I am trying to run Windows 3.1 from a novell network.   Within a few
>minutes of use, the PC side just freezes up.  Because most of the
>applications are windows apps, I'm running in windows when it freezes (Most
>of the time in WordPerfect 6.x).  I'm not sure exactly what to do.  I don't
>mind adding addtional memory to the DOS card if I knew that it would help.
>Does anyone have any ideas?

This isn't a direct answer, but I might be able to help keep you from taking
a frustrating path.

I hope someone else can corroborate this.  When I worked for Brookdale
Community College we invested in some Power Macs with DOS cards so that we
could get the best of both worlds.  We had extra funds, so we purchased
SIMMs for the DOS cards, too, planning on using part of the mac memory to
supplement the on board memory.

What we discovered was that it is an all or nothing approach when dealing
with the SIMMs on the expansion cards.  You can either split the memory on
the Mac OR you can use the memory on the card.  This was distressing becasue
our SIMMs were only 4MB.  Not large enough to stand on their own very well
in a windows world.

Note - the above was the official word from our Apple rep and Apple tech
support as of mid 1995.  They may have engineered a solution since then.




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