Hello All;
I have been playing with my "testbed" system - a new (for me) 90Mhz Pentium
with 16 Mb Ram running DOS 6.2. I will continue to use my 33Mhz '486 for all
normal activities just so I don't get the mistaken idea that Fatware is fast
enough.
I am amazed that so many of you using the latest DOSs can get Arachne to run
at all ! I say this because Arachne is a HOG for low memory and it seems very
difficult to get any reasonable amount of low memory with DOS 6.2.
I am used to having 670,784 bytes free with my regular system.
Arachne is by far the biggest memory pig of ANY software I use.
Autocad LIKES memory but it still works under 500k - just slower.
Initially, with everything possible loaded high (without the help of QEMM)
I could only get 630,528 bytes free which was apparantly not enough for
Arachne 1.60b1 because inbox.dgi would give me the "cannot make $IDX$cnm.idx"
message. My altM popup said I had 127 [+] DOS kb.
For those of you with a similar problem, I got more free memory by setting my
stacks to 0,0 in config.sys. This gave me 633,552 bytes free and Arachne then
was able to run Insight and make the index. I now have 130 [+] DOS kb.
If anyone has more than 633,552 bytes free with DOS 6+, would you please share
the tricks with the rest of us ? <G>
I know I can get more with QEMM, but what can HIMEM.sys users do ?
- Clarence Verge
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