Re: Memory problem in DOS

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From: Mike
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00

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David CL Francis wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.970729084920.18504F-100000-100000-
> 100...@dds.dds.nl>, igmar palsenberg <igm...@dds.nl> writes
> >
> >Why don't you boot to an older DOS version. Win'95 puts VMM32 resident
> >when booting in to DOS mode, so that won't solve you problem. The easy
> >way is to enable the "Boot you previous DOS version" option, so you can
> >boot an old version (eq DOS 6.22) Solves your problem.
> >
> That is good advice but what would you suggest for those who bought new
> PCs with pre-installed Win95? Especially if they have large HDs with a
> pre-enabled FAT32 partition.

Insist the PC have DOS (FAT16) installed and demo it to make sure all the 
PNP devices work under DOS.

Then get a refund for the WIN95 software that is unused.

Mike

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From: Mike <NoSpam@Today.Thanks>
Subject: Re: Memory problem in DOS
Date: 1997/08/01
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