RE: LZ: More RAM

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RE: LZ: More RAM

That's mostly correct, however you neglected Expanded memory, which is 
obselete. Anyways, Windows (3.1x, 95) manage use of Extended transparently, 
and I don't think that any speed reduction is noticable. If you have Windows, 
you don't need an Extended memory manager (Actually, you may have confused 
that with an Expanded memory manager which is necessary for all uses of 
Expanded memory). At any rate, Since Windows95 essentially runs on its own, 
AND I believe only Windows 3.1 required conventional memory to run win apps, 
you don't need to be concerned with the old memory structures.


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From: 	owner-list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org on behalf of AlanBailey@aol.com
Sent: 	Tuesday, September 03, 1996 10:47 PM
To: 	list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: 	Re: LZ: More RAM


In a message dated 96-09-03 18:09:12 EDT, you write:


That would be the first 640k of RAM on a dos system.  Extended memory needs
another mem manager and is slower to access.  Every program also requires
some conventional mem.


640k      conventional
384k      upper
1meg-?  extended


If this is wrong tell me
Alan B.


>Do you use Windows95, Mac (barf), or UNIX (I think. I don't use it)? None of


>them have that barrier for anything (Windows95 has that barrier for old 
>programs, of course, but each one gets 640k, not every program sharing
640k).
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>From: 	owner-list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org on behalf of 
>vikings@undergnd.metrobbs.com
>Sent: 	Tuesday, September 03, 1996 12:18 PM
>To: 	list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: 	Re: LZ: More RAM
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>IN>>                     "Isn't 28K enough for anybody"
>IN>>                                           by Carl Turner
>IN>>
>IN>>I think bill gates said something simalar
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>IN>He sure did.  The gist of it was "Nobody will ever need more than 640K of
>IN>memory."  And that's why we still have the 640K barrier to this day.
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>IN>--timmyt
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>I'm confused. 640k of what? It can't be RAM or hardrive. So what is it?
>
>David
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