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Re: Windows 3 segment/selector problems (Tech. Quest.)

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From: Ashok P. Nadkarni
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 14:30
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In article <588@rodan.cs.utexas.edu>, nickel@cs.utexas.edu (Jody P. Nickel) writes...
>If you are only going to run in 386 enhanced mode the this will simplify
>your task immensely. After a GlobalAlloc, you can lock this memory and
>leave it locked until it is no longer needed.

As far as I know, this is also true in standard mode. It's only real mode that
you need to worry about being a good citizen in terms of unlocking global
memory.

/Ashok Nadkarni
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Subject: Re: Windows 3 segment/selector problems (Tech. Quest.)
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