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by kscruggs

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I run a Windows/Dos court reporting software that upon upgrading to a P3 866 The program wouldn't run. Software company told me PC too fast for the DOS editor portion. Moved down to a AMD K6 500 64 MEg RAM running Win98 program now runs but extremlyslow in the DOS editor portion. Old PC was Win 98 with 16Meg Ram I'm a PC novice and can make changes if walked thru. When I run MEM in dos I get very low upper mem #'s 19 K on new PC and 58 on old PC will increasing these help and how do I do this?

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by clearsmashdrop

Many old DOS programs simply wont work on fast PC's or under new versions of windows.

Try searching for a utility called Mo'Slo it slows down your CPU so you can use older programs.

I used to use it on my Pentium to play games like Ultima IV.However, I have not tried it on p3's.

Personally, Id look for an updated version of your program.

by ken-k

When you spoke to the folks regarding your software and were informed that your computer was too fast, did they mention anything about software drivers or driver updates? This is what I would look for.

If they don't have a driver update for your software I think that the only solution would be for you to ask that they send you a version that will work on your new machine.

Many companies do this as a courtesy since the technology is advancing so rapidly but expect to have to pay for it.

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