G'day Constant,
On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:31:36 -700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> setup to lear Linux. 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. But I do not want to change to 123 because all my macros
> are in Symphony and the computers in my office and at home were always
> mirroring each other.
A couple of speculations (as a Symphony non-user):
- How much RAM is in your latest computer? Symphony might not
recognize large amounts of RAM properly - remember that when it was
created, 4MB RAM was a *colossal* amount. Try using most of your RAM
for a VDISK setup, then run Symphony in what's left. Or start up
Windoze, and run Symphony in a DOS box restricted to 640kB RAM only.
Or do the same thing with DR-DOS Task Manager. In short, somehow
prevent Symphony from "seeing" all the RAM in your computer.
- Your new computer might be too fast, thereby messing up Symphony's
internal timing and test routines. This was a well-known bug for some
applications created by Turbo Pascal or Turbo C. Put simply, if the
program uses CPU cycles for timing purposes, then a new computer will
execute them too fast.
My registered copy of Aseasyas needed an update to run properly on my
586-100; but it still only uses 8MB of the 16MB RAM available. But this
still lets me work with bigger spreadsheets than Excel 5 will.
cheers,
Fraser Farrell
http://www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/
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