Re: Checking high memory with VSCAN (PC)

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From: McAfee Associates
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 01:07

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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
Technical Support

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