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- Subject: Re: Checking high memory with VSCAN (PC)
- Message-ID: <0012.9211091912.AA05064@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 3 Nov 92 01:07:10 GMT
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- Hello Ian,
-
- ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:
- [...message I wrote about memory regions deleted for brevity...]
-
- >Hmmm... does this imply that once we all have OS/2 or whatever on 386s
- >or better, and 32-bit applications addressing oceans of flat memory
- >space then we will have to wait forever for SCAN or some other to scan
- >the whole bloody lot when we boot up each morning?
-
- Since OS/2 is a virtualizes memory in DOS sessions, you would only
- have to check the memory allocated for that particular DOS
- session--not all the memory available to the system.
-
- Regards,
-
- Aryeh Goretsky
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