Subject: Re: Virtual memory manager (fwd)
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 15:03:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Udo K Schuermann <walrus@wam.umd.edu>

Jeremy Williams <Jeremy.Williams@m.cc.utah.edu> writes:
> Would running Imagine PC from a full screen DOS session from within Windows
> allow you to use the Windows virtual memory?

No.  The Windows VM does not magically change your DOS applications to use
more than 20 bit (1MB) addresses, and Imagine PC's incompatibility with
XMS, EMS, DPMI, etc. will probably not even let it run in a full-screen DOS
screen under Windows anyway.

[XMem/GigaMem]
> XMem will fail while loading a picture into ADPro 2.5.  I run Imagine 3.0
> from a custom startup sequence (bypassing Workbench) and Xmem works fine 
> that way. So I guess it works for what I need it most for ;)
> 
> Gigamem would NEVER create the swap file. It would hang the machine during 
> swap file creation.

I have no trouble using ADPro 2.5 and GigaMem, but of course, I have it
configured for a swap partition, which prevents deadlocks in case you r/w
files from the same partition that the swap file is on.  This issue with
deadlocks has been discussed at length a year or so ago in one of the
comp.sys.amiga groups.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu


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