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swapping for HDPMI32? (DOSX)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 12.08.2007, 16:19

> There can be unpredictable results in case when application tries to allocate
> more memory than is available.
Yes, all poorly written applications can give "unpredictable results". Smart applications catch those "out of memory" errors and report them to the user.

> What about adding a virtual memory into HDPMI32 like CWSDPMI has?

Virtual memory was crucial in the days of 2,4,8 MB machines. Nowadays it's far less important. And IMO providing virtual memory is not the task of a DPMI host if it is possible to implement it in cpu ring 3. And with HDPMI, it CAN be implemented that way.

> Windows programs usually don't care about enough memory - they rely
> on virtual memory services provided by win kernel.
I don't know what the majority of Windows programs do. But I usually have disabled virtual memory when running Windows and have no problems so far.

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