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- From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 experience?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.165355.17188@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- References: <1992Nov6.193402.13261@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:53:55 GMT
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- hansen@deci.cs.umn.edu (David M. Hansen) writes:
- : Doesn't OS/2 use virtual memory (i.e. swapping to disk)? If so, it would
- : probably be wise to turn this feature off, if possible. Otherwise, you may
- : introduce unpredictable non-deterministic (albiet generally short) delays in
- : your program, just by executing the next instruction...
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- Yes you can turn it off. As a related note, if you junk the GUI and just
- use the basic OS services, the OS + app can probably fit into 4 to 8MB
- of physical memory.
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- jin meng
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