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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.184914.2920@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:49:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan3.235327.13718@qb.rhein-main.de> <1993Jan6.165640.2894@lsl.co.uk> <C0GJzC.GFJ@metaflow.com>
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- In article <C0GJzC.GFJ@metaflow.com>, rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) writes:
- > 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).
- >
- > 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.
-
- OK, thanks for the correction, I'm a Windows novice and X/Motif Guru type, so
- we do GIS, and expect program + data size to hit 100Meg or more, so I'm
- afraid as far as VM goes, I still can't really take Windows that seriously,
- however maybe using a Watcom C compiler and some of their enhancements....
- (or maybe it isn't Watcom, but someone else).
-
- Windows ain't that bad (but I haven't coded it yet), but it sure does need a
- Wt on top of it (Xt like thingumy) - no problem, I know what to write, but the
- guys at work don't want me to get down and do it yet.
- --
- snail@lsl.co.uk
-
- "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
- means to side with the powerful, not to be Neutral."
- Quote by Freire.
- Poster by OXFAM.
-