From: thorin@ptd.net   
      
   I just made a discovery....   
      
   The 486 that my board is on now actually has 32MB of ram.  And the   
   board's running just fine.   
      
   So how's that possible if phar lap's software is limited to 16?   
      
   Now i've got myself all sorts of confused......   
      
   Corey wrote:   
   >   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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