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

> 
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