[arachne] Re: Broadband with Arachne on Thinkpad.

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:34:14 +0000, Ted Frater wrote:

> Hi All

> It seems that Ive finally made a connection tothis list,

> Ive beentrying to do thisfor some time as im intersted in using dos
> with broadband as well. Im an IBM Thinkpad enthusiast/ collector here
> in Dorset UK, and the last Thinkpad that IBM made with all the
> drivers for dos was the 390x.
> thisis a 15in screen p111/ 500 with 256 megs  ram.
> Ive put dos 6.2 andWFWGS on it.

> As ive Virgin .net broadband on ADSL max average connection speed up
> to 3mbs due to being 6k from the exchange,
> Im using the netgear  pcmcia cat 5 interface to the Linksys router,

> This Netgear has the drivers for dos and connects to broadband using
> Netscape 3 or Opera 6.
> However ,

> when trying to load Arachne in dos it comes up with the message
> insufficient base memory to run .
> Now ive tried to run Arachne in a dos window in  but this doesnt work.

> Obviously there are too many tsr's loading to leave enough base
> memory for arachne. I can post thefigures in due course , if theres
> any interest in this problem. Neeless to say I use anoter Thinkpad
> runnning Linux for my daily net connections wnich has the cat 5
> connection on the back . The softwatre setupfor this router is done
> by a friend who hinks im mad to play around with dos.
> However its the only os that I can get my head around.
> Ted. frater..

Hi Ted,

It might be as easy as running memaker.exe

Failing that.... please post your config.sys & autoexec.bat files.

We can then see about 'twaeking' them manually to get enough memory
freed-up for you to run Arachne.

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