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- From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
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- References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan3.235327.13718@qb.rhein-main.de> <1993Jan6.165640.2894@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:28:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.165640.2894@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- |> On a workstation, software does not worry about how much memory it has; just
- |> page it out to disk. Microsoft windows can release memory and re-read it from
- |> the disk, but it can't page memory *out* to the disk (not unless it changed
- |> recently).
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- Not terribly recently -- Windows 3.1 has fully virtual memory in
- "enhanced mode". (For some reason, they limit virtual memory to twice
- the size of physical memory.) I believe that 3.1 has been out for a
- year or so.
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