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Does Lotus-123 3.1 Still Require DOS Extender?

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From: Frank Merrow
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 1990 02:46
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Hi,

One of the reasons I did NOT update from Lotus-123 2.1 to 3.0 was PC Magazine's
desciption of the Lotus DOS extender.  While I do have the extra extended
memory that it requires, I have it set up as a RAM disc that I VERY much need
for several of my other applications and the prospect of rebooting all the time
just to run Lotus did not appeal to me at all.  I noted to my wife the other
day that version 3.1 is supposed to be supported under MS-Windows and my wife
took that to mean that I wanted the update (as my anniversary present).
(Windows is a purchase I am planning soon for my 286, but have NOT yet gotten.)
I thought that perhaps before I took the shrink wrap off the box (thus saving
my marriage) or returning it (with the resulting problems) that I would ask
the net if the DOS extender is still a required part of the update.  It
seemed possible to me that they dropped it to make 123 Windows 3.0 compatable.
Did I get lucky?

Frank
frank@odetics.com or uunet!odetics!frank
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From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Does Lotus-123 3.1 Still Require DOS Extender?
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.024637.10685@odetics.com>
Date: 27 Oct 90 02:46:37 GMT
Reply-To: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
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