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Subject: Re: HIARCS 6.0 under OS/2 Warp 4.0 ?

Author: Peter Stein

Date: 11:22:12 12/13/97

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On November 24, 1997 at 23:48:33, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>On November 24, 1997 at 14:52:56, Peter Stein wrote:
>
>>Any success stories?
>>
>>Peter Stein
>>nbi@xnet.com
>
>I can run it under Warp 4.0 with no problem, but I installed it under
>DOS 7.0 on my Win95 partition. I don't know if the copy protection will
>allow you to install it under Warp 4.0's DOS. Of course, you can run the
>Fritz5 program with the HIARCS6 engine under WIN-OS2.
>
>Hope this helps,
>kp

Sorry, it doesn't. I just made the mistake of purchasing this program.
Because they use a non-standard memory manager hash tables are limited
to the size of available conventional memory, unless of course you
create a DOS boot disk in order to cripple your PC for anything else
other than HIARCS. This problem is not limited to OS2 it will manifest
itself even with WIN31 or WINDOWS95. The bottom line is that hash tables
are crippled unless HIARCS has exclusive access to the PC. The more
astute among you may have noticed that discussion of this subject has
been deftly avoided on the HIARCS web
page. Since this limitation has not been explicitly stated in any of
the literature I consider it to be a defect. If a solution can't be
arrived at I'm going to insist on a refund.

Peter Stein



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