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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.235238.19875@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan6.204721.27215@apgea.army.mil> <1993Jan6.222411.502@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:52:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.222411.502@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >With a 16MB system, probably less than 4MB in most cases. Remember
- >that DOS apps consume about 1MB each, plus any XMS or EMS memory they
- >choose to use. An OS/2 BBS program will use less, since it will only
- >get what it needs instead of an entire virtual-8088 worth.
-
- Well, actually OS/2 will not allocate that DPMI, XMS, EMS, or even (I
- think) conventional memory unless and until the application running
- actually requests it. Clever, isn't it?
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