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Re: WRT Problems..

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From: Mike Dahmus
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 15:54
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In article <1991Mar21.152756.21508@athena.mit.edu>, mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan
M Shah) says:
>
>In article <t.8G$a!41@cs.psu.edu> tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu (Michael B
>Tierney) writes:
>>I'm having a problem with the Whitewater Resource Toolkit that came with
>>BC++.  Whenever I try to start it, the drive accesses for a bit, then WRT
>>returns with an 'Out of Memory' error.  This is in 386 Enhanced mode on
>>a 386 20Mhz 4Meg, 80MegHD with something like 14Meg Virtual free.  Is it
>>just me or is 14Meg a bit much space for any program?  Anyone have any
>>insights?  Thanks in advance,
>>                                           Mike
>
>No kidding. On my machine with 8 Meg and 24 Meg virtual free, WRT will come
>up but run out of memory if I try to save anything. Moreover, it takes
>more than 5 secs to even come up (ie, turn the cursor into an hourglass to
>tell me that its loading!)
>
That's funny,  because on my machine (PS/2 model 70 386, 60mb HD, 3 meg mem),
I haven't had any problems,  and it loads in about 10 seconds total.  And
this is after I had to turn off my SMARTDRV disk cache in order to have enough
memory to run BC++ in protected mode.
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Date: Thursday, 21 Mar 1991 10:54:08 EST
From: Mike Dahmus <MXD118@psuvm.psu.edu>
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