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- From: pricec@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
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- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.035115.29124@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 03:51:15 GMT
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- price> == price carl wayne <pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU>
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- price> OOPS, wrong again. The 640kB barrier is in DOS, not the Intel
- price> hardware with a 32-bit OS, in my case OS/2, this limit *does not
- price> exist*. I know. In my computer right now there is 8MB of ram,
- price> and I assure you I need no tricks to access that memory.
-
- >Sounds great. How much software is there for OS/2? How much of it
- >takes advantage of the new user interface? How likely is it that you
- >can run software that was written in 1988, say, and have it still use
- >all that 8M?
-
- There is quite a few OS/2 commercial packages (around 1500) and there are
- somewhere around 160 OS/2 2.0 commercial packages out there, more are
- written every day. And for your info, I have no problem running software
- written in 1988, be it DOS, Windows, or OS/2 software (yes, OS/2 will run
- Windows software designed for the early versions of windows.), All of these
- will run under WPS in windows. For the DOS and Windows software, OS/2 has
- DPMI, etc. for them to think that they can have this memory. What's more
- I can run 4 DOS windows, each one thinking they have 12MB of memory, and
- never have a swap file that grows bigger than the standard 6MB unless one
- of those programs actually needs the memory (some programs like to know they
- have a lot of memory to use, even if they never use it. It's something
- some programers do.)
-
- So to answer your question. All the software that I have that was written
- before 1988 works. A number of packages are available to run using the new
- interface with many more being written (remember these features are new so
- it will take time for a huge number of apps to be written, but major
- software companies are working on it. i.e. Lotus, WP, Corel, Borland, etc.)
-
- --Carl
-
- Carl W. Price
- pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu
-