Re: Memory Limitations Of Windows 3.x

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <01bc7a9a$c0460da0$LocalHost@ste>, Steve Buckley
<Stephen@SPBUCK.softnet.co.uk> writes
>Is there a 16Mb memory limitation to Windows 3.1 or Windows for
>Workgroups??
>
>i.e. on a 64Mb PC will only the first 16 Mb be used by windows?

No. Windows 3.1 supports up to 256MB RAM, this limit being imposed by
the XMS memory manager "himem.sys".

The only 16MB limit in Windows 3.1 is in the size of a single block of
memory which can be allocated by an application. An application can,
however, allocate multiple blocks of this size should it need to do so.

Chris

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From: Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Memory Limitations Of Windows 3.x
Date: 1997/06/16
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