Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)

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From: Russ Schnapp
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:28

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In article <1993Jan6.165640.2894@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
|> On a workstation, software does not worry about how much memory it has; just
|> page it out to disk. Microsoft windows can release memory and re-read it from
|> the disk, but it can't page memory *out* to the disk (not unless it changed
|> recently).

Not terribly recently -- Windows 3.1 has fully virtual memory in
"enhanced mode".  (For some reason, they limit virtual memory to twice
the size of physical memory.)  I believe that 3.1 has been out for a
year or so.
-- 

...Russ Schnapp
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