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echo: os2prog
to: Darin McBride
from: Lars Hellsten
date: 1996-01-05 12:00:12
subject: Re: Swapping to disk?

DM> Lars, Lars, Lars.  Porting your Renegade stuff over?  :-)

My PCBoard and later Telagard stuff (for now - what are the chances of an
OS/2 version of Renegade? ;) )

 DM> Don't bother - let OS/2 decide that the program isn't in use and swap
 DM> it out on its own.  First, you don't have as much to do.  Second, the
 DM> recall time is faster... :-)

Yeah, this didn't really occur to me at the time, and I wasn't really
thinking.  I'm just so used to DOS where if you leave something in memory,
it's going to stay there.  I didn't stop to consider the fact that OS/2
should automatically swap out something that's not being used if it needs
more memory.  It's just the thought of my program sitting in memory while
it's doing nothing that threw me off, I guess.

Now if only I could get this much response to my problem with screen writes
being slow.  (I think David Muir may have provided an adequate solution for
now, although it still is horribly slow compared to DOS in which screen
writes - even one character at a time - are instant...)

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