> From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This question is only partly connected to survivors pc.
Sounds like Survivor Software to me.
> Since years I am using Symphony from Lotus 123 for practically all my
> correspondence and I have taken it with me over the years from computer to
> computer..(snip)...But my Symphony does not want to work on this machine.
> Every time that I try Symphony the computer tells me that there is some
> memory problem and reboots automatically. Lotus 123 works ok.
Apart from some more detailed info on your error message, this is my guess;
some early PC software had a "memory available" check that backfired when
there was more than a given amount of free memory, what with 640K and more of
RAM and DOS/TSR's loaded into high memory. There'd be more free memory than
it was programmed to consider acceptable, so it rolled over and said "not
enough memory". I had a little text editor that used to do that (didn't use
it much for that reason).
One other possibility is that the machine is running too fast for your
software. In the last couple of years, problems have cropped up in several
programming environments (Turbo Pascal 7, CA-Clipper and FoxPro 2.6 to name a
few) where a machine running over a certain speed will cause the software to
bomb out. You might try running it with a program like "slowdown" (my
favorite, available at your local Simtel.Net mirror if I recall correctly)
and see if it runs OK with the speed level down to XT or AT equivalent. Then
you can try higher settings to see just how fast it'll run on that hardware.
If you can post the text of that error message, we might be able to help
more.
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