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Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: ad... Adam Watkin
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
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tstan (ts...@cris.com) wrote:
: Yeah, I know a guy who, no matter what he does within the 
: context of editing shortcut parameters for a dos session within 
: windows, cannot get more than about 500k or less conventional 
: memory free. This leaves about 80% of his old dos software 
: unusable. Of course, the win95 manual is silent on these types 
: of problems. Actually the win95 manual is silent on just about 
: everything else to given its paltry size. 
	Tell him to delete all the useless junk in his autoexec.bat and 
config.sys. There is no reason why he should get any less that about 590K 
I would think. Tell him to rename them to config.bak and autoexec.bak and 
see how it goes without them. I have yet to find a program that doesn't 
run - except for 3ds4 and Imagine 3.0 but they had trouble under normal 
dos :)

Adam.
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From: ad...@wonderland.apana.org.au (Adam Watkin)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/09/13
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