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Article #1919Re: Windows 386
From: Roger Hadgraft
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 22:58
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 22:58
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> From my understanding, Windows 386 is fully capable of multitaking as it uses > the "protected" mode of the 386 chip. This means every window you open > creates a "virtual" 8086 to run it in. The mail advantages are that you run > multiple windows using the protection in the 386 chip so that the seperate > programs don't crash. > This is not strictly correct. Every non-Windows application runs in a separate partition. However, ALL the Windows applications run in ONE partition. It's a bit like running Windows/286 on top of the 386 memory management. I believe that Windows 3 will relieve some of these problems so that each Windows application will have access to up to 16 MBytes of memory. -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!cie590l From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 386 Message-ID: <9681@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 22 Oct 89 22:58:03 GMT References: <3610@netmbx.UUCP> <2572@hub.UUCP> Sender: cie590l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia Lines: 16