Hello Karl!
22 Feb 98 01:19, Karl Barnfather wrote to Hans Mangold:
 HM>> Tell me something, what happened to the price of RAM the last
 HM>> time your ignorant DOJ got involved in the free market?  And who
 HM>> paid the price for their stupidity?
 KB> RAM prices resulted from a world shortage after PC sales began to
 KB> really boom and followed that trend for several years. Now that the
 KB> RAM supply/demand scale is more even, the prices are down. Besides,
 KB> RAM has to cheap to feed that MB guzzler that is Win95. I have a 32MB
 KB> system that has a wopping 16MB free under Win95! If only I knew what
 KB> Win95 did with the other 16... It should only need about 4MB for it's
 KB> own drivers/GUI/cache/bla.
Karl, the RAM prices headed towards the sky after the US Governement imposed 
heavy "anti-dumping" duties on RAM chips in the name of protecting the local 
(U.S.) manufacturers.
Karl, "resource management" is probably the best part of Win95.  Actually, it 
should not have any memory "free" -- what is the point of having memory in 
the PC when it's not put to good use at all times?  Win95's cache management 
is dynamic, i.e. it analyzes current workload and tries to predict future 
demands, resizing, for example, the disk cache on the fly.  Meaning, it takes 
(almost) all of the memory that is in fact available and assigns it to 
wherever it is needed at the time.  If an application demands more memory, 
it's immediately taken away from the cache, otherwise it's added.  This is an 
extremely efficient use of the memory pool, infinitely better than brain-dead 
Win 3.1 ever was.  :-)
The above is an over-simplification of resource management, but you see that 
doing it this way, your investment in memory is never idle but always used 
wherever it might be needed or where it could improve performance.
Cheers, Hans
... Winter is natures way of saying 'up yours!'
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