On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:58:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > to sum it all up - we're back to the days of himem.sys and emm386.sys on > good old MSDOS, except that 896MB replaces the old 640KB on msdos (which > himem.sys lifted to a 1MB limit), and 'ZONE_HIGHMEM' comes instead of the > memory swapping performed by EMM386.sys . >
Or you could look at ZONE_HIGHMEM as win 3.11 virtual memory management (handles to memory which have to be locked to get a pointer) ;-) > now, who was the linux geek that said "well, 1GB of memory should be > enough for anyone" ? :) Maybe the same one that said 32bit IP addressing should be enough. Considering the whole world will probably need about five computers, the IP addressing should be enough, but I guess they will need a little more memory |-p > > -- > guy > > "For world domination - press 1, > or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
