home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30 / NN_1992_30.iso / spool / comp / os / os2 / advocacy / 10654 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-12-21  |  1.5 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!luxury.latrobe.edu.au!cscks
  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  3. Subject: Re: Why 512MB limit in OS/2?
  4. Message-ID: <1992Dec20.085153.18277@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
  5. From: cscks@luxury.latrobe.edu.au (Kamal Shaker.)
  6. Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 08:51:53 GMT
  7. Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System)
  8. References: <1992Dec17.201147.28490@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
  9. Organization: La Trobe University
  10. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
  11. Lines: 25
  12.  
  13. jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
  14. : In article <BzF32B.Dpr@ecf.toronto.edu> kumarad@ecf.toronto.edu (KUMARADAS JOSEPH CARL) writes:
  15. : >In article <1992Dec17.064426.7111@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
  16. : >>
  17. : >>Why does OS/2 have a limit of 512MB per application?
  18. : >>
  19. : >It is there to maintain compatibility with 16 bit OS/2 apps.  It will be 
  20. : >removed once 16 bit apps are a thing of the past.
  21. : 
  22. : Why does this 512MB seem like it's a big deal?  Who's writing an app that
  23. : needs 512MB today?  Maybe in a year or two, however ;)
  24. : 
  25. : Jeff
  26. : 
  27. : 
  28.  
  29. Microsoft Word for OS/2???? :-)
  30.  
  31. --
  32. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  33. Kamal Shaker,        | cscks@luxury.latrobe.edu.au or shaker@latcs1.lat.oz.au
  34. Student Vax Cluster, | %SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA, Alcohol quota exceeded,
  35. La Trobe Uni,        | stomach dumped.
  36. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  37. There's enough water on earth to drown the human population 87.6 million times
  38.