Hi, Michiel!

21 Jan 03 14:18, Michiel van der Vlist said to Steven Horn:

 SH>> Since my DOS boxes all have provision for both expanded or
 SH>> extended memory up to at least 4 Mb, we must be talking
 SH>> about different versions of Windows.

 MV> As I said a DOS box in Windows has all the limitations of DOS. To use
 MV> more that 640K one needs tricks like expanded or extended memory. You
 MV> can only run 16 bit porogrammes and you can only use the
 MV> extended/expanded memory for data.

 MV> OS/2 in text mode on the other hand has the full memory available as a
 MV> flat 32 bit address space.

Michiel, what are you talking about ? A box is a box, 32bit console is
32bit console in both OSes. How can you compare them ?

 SH>> As for speed, my primary PC has 512Mb of RAM and a PIII-864 mhz
 SH>> processor so slowdowns are not a major problem.

 MV> You wouldn't need such outlandish resources in the first place if your
 MV> OS wasn't such a resource hog.

 MV> OS/2 runs fine on a 40 MHz 386 with 8 Mb of ram.

Win95 runs with 4 mb,  but I need 512 to run all the applications I
need simultaneously and relatively smoothly. Every extra 10 seconds
I spend when I start IDE of my compiler cost me $1. I can start IDE
up to 20 times a day.  In a month all the expences will be excused.

Bye, Sinc, Alex

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