Re: Power Macs with DOS cards

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From: Dan Schnaidt
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00

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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?
>
>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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