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to: ROGER SCUDDER
from: WILLIAM MCBRINE
date: 1998-03-23 09:01:00
subject: Avoid disaster

-=> Roger Scudder wrote to Auke Reitsma <=-
 RS> IOW they do their own heap management?  Um... wouldn't it be unusual
 RS> for all the available memory to be allocated to a single program?
In a real OS, yes, but not in DOS. :-) In DOS, it's normal for a program
to be given all free memory on startup. It doesn't HAVE to be given all
free memory, but since only one program will be running at a time, many
compilers default to setting the .EXE to ask for it all.
... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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