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Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?

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From: armina
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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Mike Black <mike@manipul8.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk>, Leanne Mason
><mace@dalton.demon.co.uk> writes
>>My computer has Windows 3.1, 16Mb of ram, about 70 Mb of unused hard
>>drive and I've used Memmaker to try and manage the memory.
>>When I run PhotoFinish to produce gifs or when I am on the www (using
>>Turnpike software including Netscape) for any length of time I seem to
>>run out of memory. Can anyone suggest why and how it can be corrected.
>>If I run MEM at the Dos prompt before starting WindowsI have 13.5 Mb of
>>memory free in total. 12.9Mb is XMS. When I start windows, I am left
>>with only 1.5Mb in total and only 1024BYTES of XMS. My conclusion is
>>that windows is somehow eating up the meoory. But how can there be so
>>much "resident" just by running windows?
>>Can anyone help?
>With 16Mb of RAM try Windows95. With Netscape, Hotdog, PaintShop Pro and
>other WWW utilities all running - out of memory problems, crashes etc
>seem to have been banished to history. 

>Regards
>-- 
>Mike Black

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Subject: Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?
Date: 1996/07/15
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