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- From: Edward_Swatschek@mindlink.bc.ca (Edward Swatschek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: What is "enforcer" and "low memory"?
- Message-ID: <14250@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 08:29:34 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- > Per Lundholm writes:
- >
- > Recently I mentioned Animation Station in ../graphics. Somebody then
- > jumped up and start talking about "enforcer" and "uses low memory" as
- > being mortal sins by the programmers.
- >
- > Now, what do these words stand for? I've searched for those words in
- > the FAQ without finding anything.
- >
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- Enforcer is a program that monitors the computers memory and checks to make
- sure other programs are not using memory that has not been reserved for that
- program's use. It needs a MMU to work.
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- I'm not familiar enough with what using low memory does, but that it is best
- avoided.
-
- hope this helps,
-
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