Re: Are you a Switch-It! owner?

[irsman@subzero.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <4baags$7rj@nntp3.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@Primenet.Com> wrote:

>version of it or even in Windows 95.  Is 640 K of RAM enough?  Yes, they 
>have lots more, but all software must use the first 640K and page ther 
>rest in and out.  That crap should have been fixed 10 years ago!

Win95, NT, and (best of all) UNIX all fix this for properly written software.
I can compile my handy utils that I use at work as Win32 EXEs instead of
DOS with a compiler switch (thank you Watcom!) and whammo, no 640k limit.

>Also, why does Windows 95 take some 100 Meg of HD to operate?  When it 
>does little more than GS/OS (in 2 Meg).

Uhh, does GS/OS have built-in multimedia with codecs?  How about automagic
TCP/IP?  I'm sorry, I like the GS a lot, but it doesn't help it to falsely
bash other machines.  Doing so simply stoops to CF's own level.  We're 
better than that.

(Ok, Henrik, bring in FlameStation now :)

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