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Subject:Re: Word woes, cont. From:Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA> Date:Wed, 31 May 1995 21:53:31 EDT
On Thu, 1 Jun 1995 12:05:56 LCL you wrote:
>Using the Chinese version of Word for Windows 6.0 on a machine with 16MB of
>RAM, my friend encountered an "Out of Memory" error while writing a six-page
>doc. After making inquiries, he was told that 32MB is recommended for using
>this software...
I doubt 32*GB* of RAM would help... Windows has this neat 64k resource heap
that will give the "Out of memory" error once it's used up... and no amount of
physical RAM will make it go away.
A friend of mine ran into this problem on a 16MB machine trying to run
PageMaker 5 and CorelDraw! 5.0 at the same time (editing images in CD to paste
into the software manual he was laying out in PM). He dropped in another 16MB
and guess what? he got the same error at the same point.
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