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Re: Power Macs with DOS cards

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From: Mimi Royston
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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Dan & Terry,   I have a lab of 6100/66 with Dos cards.  We are having
trouble networking them.  Could this be the cause of your freezes as
opposed to RAM problems?
Dan,  are you networking these Macs?  What protocol/network?

Mimi

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>>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?
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Terry,
>      I have a 6100/66/DOS machine which came with 16Mb RAM. It locked up
>repeatedly on both the Mac and DOS/Windows sides until I added an
>additional 16Mb. With 16Mb in the Mac and another 16Mb on the DOS card it
>is very stable. Go ahead and buy the memory.
>
>Dan
>
>Dan Schnaidt
>dschnaidt@wesleyan.edu
>203 685-2608
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