I can't give an 100% adequate example right from my mind, but
at least some programs need to be told how much memory they
shuold allocate/leave. E.g., in Turbo Pascal 7 protected mode IDE
(TPX.EXE) it's controlled by DPMIMEM and RTM environment variables.
If you don't set them, TPX takes all available extended memory for
its purposes. And when you set them too low, you can't edit huge
files.
But it becomes quite off-topic, doesn't it? :-)
Greetings,
Michal
On Mon, 28 May 2001 16:04:11 +0200, Florian Xaver wrote:
> Hi!
>> But then some poorly written
>> programs will be able to allocate whole memory and nothing will be
>> left for other tasks.
> Which ones? That shouldn't be able!
