When is 4GB RAM a minus?

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When trying to install Naturally Speaking 7 on Windows XP 32.

"Setup cannot continue because your system does not meet the minimum
requirements... you have -773MB of RAM"

Haha. I will try limiting RAM in MSconfig.
 
John Doe said:
When trying to install Naturally Speaking 7 on Windows XP 32.

"Setup cannot continue because your system does not meet the minimum
requirements... you have -773MB of RAM"

Haha. I will try limiting RAM in MSconfig.
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Silly, lazy programmers. Don't they know we will be using zebibytes?
 
John said:
When trying to install Naturally Speaking 7 on Windows XP 32.

"Setup cannot continue because your system does not meet the minimum
requirements... you have -773MB of RAM"

Haha. I will try limiting RAM in MSconfig.
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That's why companies charge for major upgrades. Not only due to added
features (or sometimes simply changed features and a different UI so it
looks different) but also to incorporate major bug fixes (which they
shouldn't charge for - but do - and won't roll back into unsupported
prior versions).

It's up to version 10 now. You might want to ask them if a later
version than your 7 fixed that problem. Could be the old version 7
doesn't actually support an NT-based version of Windows. V8 looks like
it appeared around Nov 2004. Probably not many consumer Windows hosts
(i.e., workstatsions) with more than 4gb back then, and they probably
don't support their program on server versions.

How much time did you spend researching the problem before posting here?
Did you go look at Nuance's FAQs? Here's what I found in a short time:

http://knowledgebase.nuance.com/view.asp?60VQ=IEFH&5d7r4B=zrz14B

Since they knew about the problem and published the fix way back in
April 2003, you don't think they solved it in a newer version? Not
having a need for newer features or changes is not always a sufficient
reason to not upgrade.
 
VanguardLH said:
That's why companies charge for major upgrades. Not only due to added
features (or sometimes simply changed features and a different UI so
it looks different) but also to incorporate major bug fixes (which
they shouldn't charge for - but do - and won't roll back into
unsupported prior versions).

It's up to version 10 now. You might want to ask them if a later
version than your 7 fixed that problem.
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I would think it's an issue that /is/ fixed in a later version. A mate
of mine uses Naturally speaking regularly and version 10 definitely
works with two meg of memory so probably will with 4.
 
VanguardLH said:
John Doe wrote:

That's why companies charge for major upgrades. Not only due to
added features (or sometimes simply changed features and a
different UI so it looks different) but also to incorporate major
bug fixes (which they shouldn't charge for - but do - and won't
roll back into unsupported prior versions).
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Dude. It was an installation issue, it had nothing to do with
upgrades.
It's up to version 10 now. You might want to ask them if a later
version than your 7 fixed that problem.
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Limiting RAM in MSconfig during the installation solved the problem.

Did you think it was more than an installation issue, dude?
Could be the old version 7 doesn't actually support an NT-based
version of Windows.
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It supports XP since version 6.
V8 looks like it appeared around Nov 2004. Probably not many
consumer Windows hosts (i.e., workstatsions) with more than 4gb
back then,
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Take another look at the subject line or my post, dude, I have only
4GB.
How much time did you spend researching the problem before posting
here?
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None. I thought it was amusing to be told that I have a negative
amount of RAM. The subject line is a play on words. I figured the
solution was easy enough, it was. There was no need for research.
Since they knew about the problem and published the fix way back
in April 2003, you don't think they solved it in a newer version?
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Maybe, dude, but that is irrelevant since it is an installation
issue.

Lighten up.
 
SteveH said:
I would think it's an issue that /is/ fixed in a later version. A
mate of mine uses Naturally speaking regularly and version 10
definitely works with two meg of memory so probably will with 4.
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I am using/testing an older version for a reason. In fact version 7
does work with 4GB of RAM. It would not install with 4GB of RAM
without adjusting MSconfig to limit RAM.
 
John said:
I am using/testing an older version for a reason. In fact version 7
does work with 4GB of RAM. It would not install with 4GB of RAM
without adjusting MSconfig to limit RAM.
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That's what the FAQ article said: the install has a problem with 2GB, or
more, but the *program* runs fine with 2GB, or more.
 
John said:
Dude. It was an installation issue, it had nothing to do with
upgrades.


Limiting RAM in MSconfig during the installation solved the problem.

Did you think it was more than an installation issue, dude?


It supports XP since version 6.


Take another look at the subject line or my post, dude, I have only
4GB.


None. I thought it was amusing to be told that I have a negative
amount of RAM. The subject line is a play on words. I figured the
solution was easy enough, it was. There was no need for research.


Maybe, dude, but that is irrelevant since it is an installation
issue.

Lighten up.
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Since you never got past the "installation issue" then how would anyone
know you got it working AFTER that? Not until I did the lookup in the
FAQ that you could've done did I see them mention it was just an
installation issue. If you knew it was just an installation issue and
could get around it, why were you asking here about a failed install?
 
TVeblen said:
programmers. Don't they know we will be using zebibytes?
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Tell me about it. I get older game installs that complain I don't have
enough ram all the time but luckily enough they install fine anyway.
 
Juarez said:
Tell me about it. I get older game installs that complain I don't have
enough ram all the time but luckily enough they install fine anyway.
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I had an old CAD program that when I went to install on my brand new Pentium
II machine (1997?) an error message came up that said something like:
"Generic Cad requires 2048KB of disk space to install, you only have
6,291,496KB of available space. Generic CAD cannot install. Please delete
some files and try again".
 
When trying to install Naturally Speaking 7 on Windows XP 32.

"Setup cannot continue because your system does not meet the minimum
requirements... you have -773MB of RAM"

Haha. I will try limiting RAM in MSconfig.
Click to expand...

I used to service a minicomputer that had an FPU board consisting of
discrete AM2901 4-bit ALUs. I remember one time when a faulty FPU
caused the OS to believe that the hard drive was more than 100% full.

- Franc Zabkar
 
TVeblen said:
I had an old CAD program that when I went to install on my brand new
Pentium II machine (1997?) an error message came up that said something
like: "Generic Cad requires 2048KB of disk space to install, you only have
6,291,496KB of available space. Generic CAD cannot install. Please delete
some files and try again".
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Yea, that's like Harpoon2 for Dos. If you install it via real Dos and have
more than 32mb all you will get are crashes but you can run it in XP or
Vista using Dosbox emulator just fine.
 
When trying to install Naturally Speaking 7 on Windows XP 32.

"Setup cannot continue because your system does not meet the minimum
requirements... you have -773MB of RAM"

Haha. I will try limiting RAM in MSconfig.
Click to expand...

this is pretty funny stuff. What else would one expect right Robert
Carl Parisien Natick MA
 
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