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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:20:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Virutal memory problems.
In-Reply-To: <qnxk7FApopbyEw+b@chocolat.foobar.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961027141926.14799G-100000@is>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Paul Shirley wrote:

> In principle, a good VM manager will notice that the pages never get
> touched and never do more than allocate the page descriptors. If that
> happens then there's no loss as such and paging simply won't happen for
> the unused blocks.

Even commercial DPMI hosts don't seem to manage VM better than CWSDPMI.

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