NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/misc/2517

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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 09:48:44 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Martin Schloeter)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
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N > True.  Yet these are specifics that you'll have to check in the source
N > code for windows.  The fact that MS says in their manuals that each
N > application has a stack does not mean that this is literally true.
Meanwhile only speculating or what? There are different stack. I know it and
you can believe it.
On the other side - did you really see the code of Unix with the different
stack. Have you ever seen that earth is a ball. Do you really believe, that
earth is not the center of the universe...
N > About the heap there is no problem there at all, all window's
N > appliation and DOS applications share one single huge heap which is
N > exactly the DOS's heap starting at the end of the DOS code+data (I
N > think at the beginning of physical memory) and end at the end of the
N > real memory.
No! NO! Every Windows app has an additional Local Heap. And the Windows heap is
NOT the DOS heap. The DOS heap is real mode only with max. 640K size (technical
would be 1MB possible, but the architecture of the PC..blabla). The Windows
heap is protected mode and uses all physical available memory plus virtual
memory on disk. There are different adressing mechanisms and so on.


Martin