-=> Quoting Mike Ross to Bruce Clark <=-

 MR> "BRUCE CLARK" bravely wrote to "DAN CEPPA" (11
May 05  00:31:00)
 MR> --- on the heady topic of "Max File size"
 
 BC> The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader, Version 2.30
 BC> HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
 BC> Section 4.2  Requirements for Blue Wave/DOS
 
 BC> Because of  the limitations  of DOS  (the operating  system), the
 BC> mail reader is constrained to the limit of 640K of base memory.
 BC> This means that, even though you may have 8 megabytes of memory in
 BC> your computer, DOS programs will only 'see' the first 640K.

 MR> But it can swap out to expanded or extended when running a dos shell.

That's when it swaps out to run another program, like the 
text editor, but when BlueWave is _READING_ messages, it requires 
the _INDEX_ of those messages to be in RAM with it. 

That is why BlueWave/386 is so nice. 
When there are a large number of message areas and/or messages 
in an area, the index files just grows to whatever RAM size is 
available. 


 
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