#AutoSketch
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I have recently purchased Autosketch v1.02 (Ser # 80-143477)
Enhanced for use at home while waiting for delivery of our new workstation
and AutoCAD at work. (The registration card is in the mail as of 20 MAR).
The system I have installed it on is an XT-compatible w/ 640Kb main
memory, an EGA Color card (w/ 32K of display memory), a 286Express
accelerator card (80287-8 chip installed), and an Amdek 722 color EGA
monitor. The 'plotter' is an old Epson MX-80, eight years old and getting
pretty tired!
My question regards the statement on page 8 of the manual for
AutoSketch about configuring the display device. "If you have and
Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) with both 256K of display memory and an
Enhanced Graphics Display, choose 3." As stated above, I have only 32k of
display memory, but decided to choose 3 anyway to see what would happen.
As of this time it seems to run fine, but I wonder if I am in for some
nasty surprise when the screen gets full of complex, difficult to
reproduce illustration work. Further, I know that the workstation we have
ordered for work will have 4 Mb of main memory, but the same EGA card that
I have. Will AutoCAD have the same requirment for display memory? Does it
expand into system memory to make up the difference? Or should we be out
looking for additional hardware to make it work?
Thanks in advance, Clark