From: corey@tsgc.synchro.net.remove-dy4-this   
      
     To: Nathan   
     Re: Worldgroup 2.0 Memory Limit?   
     By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Fri Apr 06 2007 09:10 am   
      
    > So i came into some new hardware for my board.  Its currently on an old   
    > 486, with 16MB of ram.  The new machine is a PIII-667, with 256MB of ram.   
    >   
    > I had this notion that i would install a bare bone linux install, and   
    > vmware. Then install dos, and copy my board into the VM.   
    >   
    > So I set the whole thing up, and installed a new copy of WG2 into the vm   
    > to test it out before i go live with it.   
    >   
    > Well, it seems that the software just doesnt like more than 16MB of ram.   
    >   If i turn the memory in the VM up to anything higher, the board   
    > crashes when i try to launch the board. The "Phar Lap's dos extender"   
    > box pops up, tells me how much memory there is, and then throws some   
    > memory addresses below it, and hangs.   
    >   
    > So is this just becasue i'm running in vmware? Or does the board not   
    > like tons of memory?   
    >   
    > Thanks.   
      
   wg won't use more that 16 megs of ram. thats the pharlap limit.   
   and I think Pharlap makes hardware calls, so hence the errors.   
      
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