Re: Minimum system specs

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From: j... Joe Mizera
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 04:13

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Azeem Azhar (mert...@black.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
: We are running a Novell LAN with 486-33s and 4MB of RAM.
: I can only get Doom to run on the 8MB machine with
: 520kb of base free.
: The other 4Mb machines won't run it at all, with an out of memory error.
: How much XMS does Doom need?
: How far from the *operative* level am I?
: If I can get the networked version to run, I could persuade my
: SU to buy it; and then onwards and upwards...
:
: Thanks.
:
: Azeem
:
: --
:
: Azeem Azhar   (Azeem...@Merton.Ox.Ac.Uk
:                 or Mert...@Black.Ox.Ac.Uk)	
:



The problem is conventional memory.  For meg total is what I have, and it
runs fine.  Try loading more high, or better yet, boot with a sys'ed floppy.

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