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- From: tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <TGUEZ.92Aug30235411@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 04:04:20 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Martin_Schloeter@eurologic.fido.de's message of 28 Aug 92 07:48:44 GMT
-
- > 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 a
- > 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...
- Ha, I love this, I really do. Yes I do believe the earth is not in
- the center of the universe, and if you wish we can talk a little
- philosophy about the universe it's location, size and if it makes sense
- to talk about the center of the universe (this comes from a discussion
- about the supposed size of the universe, if it does justice to say
- "the size of the universe," it may not be so clear according to
- Stephen Howken's (sp?) theory of the expanding universe.)
-
- I don't understand, "Have you ever seen that earth is a ball?" Do you
- mean have I ever seen the shape of earth, i.e., it's egg-like shape
- (it has a very big name that I would probably not spell right).
-
- 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
- > NOT the DOS heap. The DOS heap is real mode only with max. 640K size (t
- > would be 1MB possible, but the architecture of the PC..blabla).
- > The Window
- > heap is protected mode and uses all physical available memory plus virtual
- > memory on disk. There are different adressing mechanisms and so on.
- Ok, this was supposed to be an example like malloc, and I don't feel
- like typing anymore to explain this one also, and since we are on the
- right track and this example really was intendent to show a small
- issue. I withdraw it for the sake of argument which finally starts to
- go on the right tracks.
-
- > Martin
-
- Tomer
-