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Article #223Re: Expanded / Extended memory
From: Patrick Deupree
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 14:06
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 14:06
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> The configuration that works best for Windows won't work for OS/2. In their > infinitly grand way of doing things, Windows uses expanded memory, OS2 uses > extended memory. I'm not sure why Microsoft (or IBM?) did this, but that's > how it is. I believe that Unix uses extended memory also. > I must apologize for this posting that I made. I came down a little bit hard on the extended/expanded memory thing because I have to listen to customers complain about the fact that extended memory doesn't buy them much in Windows. I guess it annoys me as well since I've got a PS/2 model 30/286 that is almost impossible to set up with expanded memory (and it is impossible to set it up the way that would work best). I realize now, though, that extended is basically the best memory to use and expanded was just a cludge that was necessary to get things working right on non-protected mode machines. -- "I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it." -Edgar Allen Poe Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Expanded / Extended memory Message-ID: <8729@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 19 Jun 89 14:06:23 GMT References: <11885@netnews.upenn.edu> <106580044@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 21