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In article <C0GJzC.GFJ@metaflow.com>, rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) writes:
> 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.

OK, thanks for the correction, I'm a Windows novice and X/Motif Guru type, so
we do GIS, and expect program + data size to hit 100Meg or more, so I'm
afraid as far as VM goes, I still can't really take Windows that seriously,
however maybe using a Watcom C compiler and some of their enhancements....
(or maybe it isn't Watcom, but someone else).

Windows ain't that bad (but I haven't coded it yet), but it sure does need a
Wt on top of it (Xt like thingumy) - no problem, I know what to write, but the
guys at work don't want me to get down and do it yet.
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