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From: pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1022)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Swapping to disk
Message-ID: <782@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 88 06:04:41 GMT
Reply-To: pa1022@sdcc15.UUCP (Eric Hedstrom)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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From what I can tell, Windows/386 reserves a virtual machine and a
default of 640k to run windows applications.  It seems to be the
amount of free space for winapps in this 640k that the MS-Dos
Executive reports on.

If you set up PIF files and play around with the numbers a bit, you
should be able to fit two fairly large programs, since most programs
don't need a full 640k (which is what Win/386 wants to give them) if
they don't have to share memory with DOS or anything else.

However, this means you have to determine ahead of time how much
memory you think your winapps will need, since you have to set that
in your WIN.INI file, with the windowmemsize variable.  You can't
use more than this to run winapps, and you can't use this memory if
you need more for oldapps.

If I'm wrong on any of this, somebody please correct me.  And if you
know how Windows/386 decides how much expanded memory to have at any
given time, please let me know.

Eric