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From: Mike@moose.demon.co.uk (Mike Scott)
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Subject: Re: Inform under Windows; TeX
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In article <5O76Msx.bnewell@delphi.com> bnewell@delphi.com  writes:

>Inform/386 won't work under Windows; the memory managers get into conflict.
>Inform/PC (generic) can work if you have your lower memory optimized to a
>high degree.  I've found that Inform/PC, in wanting about 580k of free low
>memory, comes teasingly close under Windows.  Most people seem to have around
>570k free which doesn't quite do the job.  Running a memory optimizer such
>as Memmaker (or a real tool such as Netroom or one of those) often will do
>the job.  But the best (not 100% facetious) advice is to switch to Linux.
> 
Or OS/2, under which it works wonderfully well.

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