From: corey@tsgc.synchro.net.remove-wq8-this   
      
     To: Nathan   
     Re: Re: Worldgroup 2.0 Memory Limit?   
     By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Fri Apr 06 2007 12:19 pm   
      
    > 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 ra   
    > >  >   
    > >  > 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 v   
    > >  > 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.   
      
   no, wg will never use more than 16 megs of ram. that was a selling point of it.   
   255 lines on a dos machine with 16 megs of ram. it was written that way.   
   and it was written on a 386, I think.   
      
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