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Re: FW: Let's get System 7.x on top!



>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes:

    Dan>  10) Virtual Memory -- Executor currently has the limit of NO
    Dan> virtual memory.  Win95 has an dynamic swap file that
    Dan> grows/shrinks with use.  Executor can report the maxinum
    Dan> amount of memory a 68040 (and in the future, PPC) can handle,
    Dan> and thus no memory problems.
 
Actually, since Executor is a DPMI client it *does* use virtual
memory...I've run Executor on an old laptop with 4M of RAM just fine
(it was of course paging).

However, from what I've seen it appears to be the case that there are
advantages to allocating memory through the Win32 API, rather than
through the DPMI API.

-Mat


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