not enough memory error on brand new high end system

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My friend a programmer in cobol environment likes windows98 a lot...so
much...he bought an asus system P4 2.0ghz with 1gig DDR333 memory and 80
gigabyte of storage....the story goes like this...he installed windows 98 on
that system with 3 partitions c=19g d=19g e=38g , and installed the necessary
drivers that comes with the unit , after that he installed his favorite cobol
laguange , on the middle of installing the software he encountered "not
enough memory" error....but hey....he has a 1gig of memory...we dont know
what causing this....is there a problem with windows98 working with very
large memory? Hope you can help us....thanks

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"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@x.REMOVEx.aha.ru> wrote in message
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> > .......is there a problem with windows98 working with very
> > large memory?
>
> There are several problems in Win98 if more than 512 MB of RAM installed,
>
> "Windows 95 Can Access Up to Two GB of RAM"
> http://support.microsoft.com/suppo [...] 1/5/94.ASP
>
> "Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed
> http://support.microsoft.com/suppo [...] 3/9/12.ASP
>
> "Error Message: Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows"
> http://support.microsoft.com/suppo [...] 4/4/47.ASP
>
> "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM"
> http://support.microsoft.com/suppo [...] 4/9/43.ASP
>
> and it is strictly recommended to add a line in System.ini, under [386Enh]
> section:
>
> [386Enh]
> MaxFileCache=524288
>
> which resolves most of the issues.
>
> BUT I'm sure, in your case it is NOT a problem of Windows itself, but a
> problem of the old installer, which counts such amount of memory wrongly.
>
> As a workaround, you can limit temporarily a memory, using by Windows
> (somewhere in Control Panel -- System; have no Win98 handy to give the exact
> tab of System Properties, where you can change this limit) -- down to, say,
> 256 MB; then restart, install the program, and remove the memory limitation
> again.
>
> But that may be this old version of Cobol won't work with 1GB of memory, too,
> and there will be need to search for the newer version, or limit temporarily
> the memory (in the same way) when it is supposed to work with it.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

Very informative and thorough reply. :-)
Nice job.