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In article <gaynor.4-2809950955530001@arcane.eng.ohio-state.edu>,
gaynor.4@osu.edu (Jim Gaynor) wrote:

> In article <44dari$atj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
> bschmied@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bryan S Schmiedeler) wrote:
> 
> > I am having a strange problem with MS Word 5.1 on my Performa 6115 CD.  
> > Sometimes when I launch it I am told that there is not enough memory,
when I 
> > have maybe 5 Meg avaliable.  
> 
> Sounds like you're (gosh) running out of memory. :-)  There's two
> scenarios here:

Being low on memory, or not having enough RAM allocated, can cause
problems, but that's not what's going on here.

There is something funky about the way that MS Word 5.1 grabs for RAM.  I
read the official explanation (er... excuse) a while ago, but I don't
remember what it was.  Something about looking for memory too close to the
system heap.  Nah, that doesn't make sense.  Must have been something else
that didn't make sense.

Anyhow, the usual prescription is to launch another program first, but
I've found that doesn't always work either.  The old dictum, "if at first
you don't succeed" sometimes works--on the second or third try things
magically work.  Go figger.  I've never seen an explanation (excuse!) for
that behavior.  

For what it's worth, the amount of physical RAM you have appears to be
irrelevant.  I've had the problem with 19MB of free physical RAM.  

--Shawn