[comp.sys.ibm.pc] IBM AT compatible BIOS

loafman@convexe.UUCP (02/16/88)

I too have the DTK BIOS and have had no troubles with it.  What makes
you think it is not compatible with the std AT BIOS??

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cbunjiov@sun-oil.ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) (02/18/88)

In article <63200029@convexe> loafman@convexe.UUCP writes:
>
>I too have the DTK BIOS and have had no troubles with it.  What makes
>you think it is not compatible with the std AT BIOS??
>

Have you tried running Kermit 2.3?  I have, both at home and
at work.  It runs fine on the Compaq portables we have in the office.
On my AT clone, I get a "Program too large to fit in memory".
Hard to believe, since I have 1 meg RAM and Kermit is only ~181K.
Oh yes, I'm running DOS 3.2.

I'm open to other explanations...

Charleen

murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) (02/18/88)

In article <2458@zodiac.UUCP> cbunjiov@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:

>In article <63200029@convexe> loafman@convexe.UUCP writes:
>>
>>I too have the DTK BIOS and have had no troubles with it.  What makes
>>you think it is not compatible with the std AT BIOS??
>>

>Have you tried running Kermit 2.3?  I have, both at home and
>at work.  It runs fine on the Compaq portables we have in the office.
>On my AT clone, I get a "Program too large to fit in memory".
>Hard to believe, since I have 1 meg RAM and Kermit is only ~181K.
>Oh yes, I'm running DOS 3.2.
>
>I'm open to other explanations...

I'd be surprised if this was due to BIOS incompatabilties.  Do you
run any memory resident programs?  These things eat up memory of
course.  You have a meg of RAM, but DOS can only use 640k of this
to load programs.  I'd suggest you run a chkdsk on your clone just
before loading Kermit.  This will report to you how much memory
you actually have free,  which is quite different (usually) that
what your system is configured for.  See how it compares with
the Kermit requirements.

The best way to check to see where your problem lies is to rename
your autoexec.bat and config.sys files (to *.sav or something),
reboot your machine, and run kermit on an empty system.  This way
the only interaction is just DOS and Kermit.

Let me know if this works.  What clone is this anyway?
 
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