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Re: Can BC 3.0 be made to run on a computer with 1M of RAM?

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From: Joe Huffman
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:01
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kibirev@csa.bu.edu (oleg kibirev) writes:

>I have a 286 with 1M of RAM & no place to put more memory. The

>Now the question. I've never written protected mode programs, but I
>think that if BC 3.0 is using DPMI, it should be possible to give
>it as much "extended memory" as it wants by swapping to the disk. Is
>there a program to replace DPMILOAD that will do this?

A '286 machine can't implement DPMI.  Sorry...

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Subject: Re: Can BC 3.0 be made to run on a computer with 1M of RAM?
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:01:56 GMT
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