> ehhh, no mater what, or so I have heard, win 9x to win me will NOT boot > with more than 512 megs ram. I can say that for sure with winME. > it is really the way the ram is used, as far as I know, that makes the > differences, that and the way it is tested by the kernal developers to > decide what really is the best optimization for the ram use.
AFAIK, this is not entirely correct. I've known people running about 768 (or something like that).. oh, no, wait. It was 1G of RAM. The problem with it is that Win9X cannot use all of it. And also, any more than 512MB will only make the machine slower, as Win9x kernels have a memory managment so crippled that it can choke by maintaining "too many" process tables and memory pages. And no matter how many programs this guy loaded, memory usage was never above ~400 MB, and it would even freeze due to "lack of resources" without going any further. Damian
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