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- From: paul@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Joyce)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Virtual memory for PC?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 03:19:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Melbourne
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- Originator: paul@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au
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- Hi,
-
- Does any product exist that provides virtual memory under Extended-DOS?
-
- Is it correct to say that most DOS extenders just allow access to the
- RAM in the machine ("break the 640K barrier"), but don't provide
- virtual memory?
-
- We have workstation application which is multi-megabyte in size when
- linked (4-6MB depending on machine). The data in memory can also be
- extremely large (1-???MB depending on job). We believe it is portable
- enough that it should compile using one of the 32 bit C/C++ compilers
- available now (Watcom, Metaware, etc) and Extended-DOS. However, it
- seems imperative that some kind of virtual memory facility be available
- for this to be feasible, since PCs with 8MB of RAM seems to be regarded
- as pretty well spec'd up, and that would be just enough space to load
- the OS and the executable, ie, no data.
-
- We are aware that Windows 3.0+ will solve our virtual memory problem,
- but we use a home grown GUI which we don't want to replace with Windows
- GUI just yet. If we can get over this problem, we have something that
- runs on the PC now, and we can work on our Windows version.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Paul.
- --
- Paul Joyce
- paul@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au
-
- "I think you're pretty smart, don't I?" - Daffy Duck
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