Re: Memory Allocation Woahs---HELP, Please

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From: Richard Hancock
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 10:23

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/ hpopd:comp.windows.ms.programmer / Martin_Schloeter@eurologic.fido.de (Martin Schloeter) / 12:34 pm  Apr  3, 1992 /

>...
>Your guess is right. The total number of handles it limited to 8192 in
>enhanced mode and 4096 in standard mode (Windows uses only _one_ LDT).

Two minor points :- the LDT and GDT may both contain 2^13 (ie. 8192) handles;
I wasn't aware that only the GDT is used in Standard Mode (in fact I
hope very much that it's not).

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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:23:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Memory Allocation Woahs---HELP, Please
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